ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY IN OCTOGENARIANS

Authors
SCAPA E BERANT A LEIBOVITZ A HABOT B
Citation
E. Scapa et al., ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY IN OCTOGENARIANS, Journal of clinical gastroenterology, 22(1), 1996, pp. 21-22
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Journal title
Journal of clinical gastroenterology → ACNP
ISSN journal
01920790
Volume
22
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Pages
21 - 22
Database
ISI
SICI code
0192-0790(1996)22:1<21:ERCIO>2.0.ZU;2-6
Abstract
Thirty patients greater than or equal to 80 years of age (mean 86) und erwent diagnostic and/or therapeutic endoscopic retrograde cholangiopa ncreatography (ERCP). The low mortality (6.6%) and complication (6.6%) rates lead us to believe that ERCP in octogenarians provides an accep table route for diagnosis and treatment of biliary and pancreatic diso rders.