Acute biliary pancreatitis caught in the act

Abstract

Abstract Endoscopic ultrasound is instrumental in biliary pancreatitis for stratifying patients for invasive ERCP, given high rates of spontaneous stone passage. This is reflected in this report illustrating “triple detection” of stones above, at, and below the papilla.

Keywords

• bile duct stone disease
• biliary pancreatitis
• endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography
• endoscopic ultrasound
• stone passage