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Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography in octogenarians
E Scapa1, A Berant, A Leibovitz
1Institute of Gastroenterology, Liver Diseases and Nutrition, Assaf Harofeh Medical Centre, Zerifin, Israel.
Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology
|January 1, 1996
Abstract:
Thirty patients > or = 80 years of age (mean 86) underwent diagnostic and/or therapeutic endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). The low mortality (6.6%) and complication (6.6%) rates lead us to believe that ERCP in octogenarians provides an acceptable route for diagnosis and treatment of biliary and pancreatic disorders.