These guidelines have been developed at the request of the Standards of Care Committee of the British Thoracic Society (BTS) and with the agreement of the Royal College of Radiologists and the British ...

Finally, in this study, other drainage methods as percutaneous transhepatic or EUS-guided biliary drainage were not evaluated. In conclusion, this study suggests that drainage of at least 50 % of ...

The patient's post-operative convalescence was uneventful, with a hospital stay of 7 d. Ten months later, the patient was readmitted to our center for cholangiointestinal anastomotic stricture and ...

This study investigates the predictive factors for the necessity of step-up procedures following endoscopic ultrasound-guided drainage (EUS-FCD) of peripancreatic fluid collections (PFCs). Prior ...

Percutaneous transhepatic puncture is then performed with a 17G × 10.6 cm coaxial needle (MCXS1816AX; Argon Medical Devices, Frisco, TX, USA) and a 5F vascular introducer (RS+A50K10SQ Radifocus ...

Objective: This study aimed to determine the safety and accuracy of ultrasound-guided acupotomy percutaneous loosening of the transverse carpal ligament. Conclusion: In this study, we designed a new ...

and When endoscopic or percutaneous treatments fail. Thus, it appears that laparoscopic drainage is less successful than open drainage, and may be feasible only in a few selected cases.