The role of placing multiple stents in the pancreatic duct has been assessed in only one study. [80] Nineteen patients with severe CP and with a single pancreatic stent through a refractory ...

Surgery provides pain relief in 40–60% patients with chronic pancreatitis, pancreatic duct strictures and pancreatic duct stones; however, severe complications can occur. Endoscopic stent ...

In addition, not removing the transmural stents creates a conduit for secretions ... revealed that the number of (sonographic) chronic pancreatitis criteria had increased from five to seven ...