PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Mansour A. Parsi
AU  - Tyler Stevens
AU  - John A. Dumot
AU  - Gregory Zuccaro, Jr
TI  - Endoscopic therapy of recurrent acute pancreatitis
AID  - 10.3949/ccjm.76a.08017
DP  - 2009 Apr 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 225--233
VI  - 76
IP  - 4
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/76/4/225.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/76/4/225.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med2009 Apr 01; 76
AB  - Endoscopic therapy has emerged as an alternative to surgery for the subset of patients with acute recurrent pancreatitis whose disease is due to gallstones or other mechanical processes that obstruct the outflow of the pancreas. In this article, the authors review the specific situations in which endoscopic therapy might be useful in patients with acute recurrent pancreatitis.