Surgical Versus Nonsurgical Management of Pancreatic Pseudocysts

Compare patient characteristics and outcome and also physician referral patterns between surgically and nonsurgically managed patients with pancreatic pseudocysts.Treatment of pancreatic pseudocysts can be accomplished by surgical, endoscopic, or percutaneous procedures. The ideal treatment method has not yet been defined.All patients treated for pancreatic pseudocyst between 1999 and 2005 were identified in our health services database....