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To the Editor: In their review of chronic pancreatitis, Steer et al. (June 1 issue)¹ imply that the best treatment for pseudocysts due to chronic pancreatitis is laparotomy. Data from several surgical and endoscopic or radiographic series suggest otherwise.

Percutaneous drainage² was associated with a mortality rate of 2 percent or less, even when the majority of patients had infected pseudocysts.³ Endoscopic drainage^4,5 has a mortality rate of 1 percent. These results are equivalent or superior to those from recent reports of surgical repair.^6,7 The frequency of recurrence of pseudocysts, hemorrhage, and infection after endoscopic or percutaneous drainage is about . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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