The gold-standard treatment for patients with chronic anal fissure (CAF) is lateral internal sphincterotomy (LIS). Few studies have assessed the impact of this procedure with regard to quality of life ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Endoscopic sphincterotomy performed before endoscopic biliary stenting may prevent post-endoscopic retrograde ...

SAN DIEGO — In treating pancreas divisum, the common use of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) with minor papilla endoscopic sphincterotomy showed no significant benefit over a sham ...

THE management of the patient with recurrent pancreatitis is controversial. It will probably continue to be so until there is a better understanding of the underlying causative mechanisms. Of the ...