A pancreatic pseudocyst is a collection of tissue and fluids that forms on your pancreas. Your pancreas is located behind your stomach. Pseudocysts usually form as the result of a hard blow to your ...

The first stent specifically designed to treat pancreatic pseudocysts yesterday was cleared for marketing by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The Axios stent and delivery system from Xlumena ...

SAN DIEGO -- For endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided transluminal draining of pancreatic pseudocysts, plastic stents appeared as safe and effective as lumen-apposing metal stents (LAMS) in a randomized ...

Pancreatic pseudocyst, the most common cystic lesion of the pancreas, is a localized collection of fluid rich in amylase within or adjacent to the pancreas and enclosed by a nonepithelialized wall, ...

BRANDENBERG, Maddock and Schweitzer 1 reported the treatment by transgastric cyst gastrostomy of 2 patients with pancreatic pseudocysts and pancreatitis in 1951. Maddock suggested this procedure, ...

We read the paper of Eddy et al. 1 with great interest about pancreatic pseudocysts in pregnancy. They report on a patient who was managed conservatively and had a distal pancreatectomy 3 weeks after ...

After weeks of discomfort, the 25-year-old man got a shocking explanation for his abdominal pain. By Lisa Sanders, M.D. The 25-year-old man was shivering. Although the weather in Milwaukie, Ore., was ...

The pancreas-- a spongy, tadpole-shaped organ located behind the stomach-- makes enzymes our bodies need to digest food and hormones to regulate blood sugar levels. If the pancreas is injured, its ...