Table 3.
Some technical aspects of the drainage, etiology and location of the cysts
| Drainage technique | No. of procedures | Anesthesia | Etiology | Type of pancreatitis | Location |
| Giovannini Needle Wire1 in 16 cases | One in 19 patients | Sedation2 in 19 patients | Alcohol (11) | Chronic pancreatitis in 14 patients | Cauda in 12 patients |
| 19-guage needle1 in 11 cases | Two in 6 patients | Intubation anesthesia in 7 patients | Idiopathic (6) | Acute pancreatitis in 12 patients | Corpus in 11 patients |
| Cystotome1 in 1 case | Eight in one patient | Gallstone (3) | Caput in 3 patients | ||
| 1 hyperlipidemia | |||||
| 1 trauma | |||||
| 1 postoperative | |||||
| 1 SLE | |||||
| 1 medication | |||||
| 1 malignant |
1
Cook Endoscopy, Winston-Salem, NC;
2
Pethidine + midazolam. SLE: Systemic lupus erythematosus.