Risks and use of ERCP during the diagnostic workup in a national cohort of biliary cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In biliary cancer, the indication of endoscopic intervention might be diagnostic as well as therapeutic, in the latter situation with the aim to relieve biliary obstruction e.g. by stenting. Our aim was to investigate the use of endoscopic biliary interventions during the diagnostic workup of biliary cancers in a national cohort, and to evaluate their complications, especially cholangitis and pancreatitis.

Methods

This is a registry-based study of national cohort of patients with biliary cancers in Sweden 2010-2020. The use of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) during the diagnostic work up period before treatment onset, and risk of complications were evaluated in patients with gallbladder cancer, intrahepatic-, perihilar- and distal cholangioca

SUBMITTER: Forslund A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11794412 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature