Table 4.

Results of pain treatment in chronic pancreatitis after sphincterotomy, stone extraction, and pancreatic stenting

Author	Number of patients	Follow-up	Immediate alleviation (%)	Long-term alleviation (%)	Rate of surgery (%)
Cremer et al126	75	37 months	94	52	15
Binmoeller et al33	93	45 months	74	38	–
Ponchon et al52	23	14 months	74	52.1	–
Dumonceau et al117	70	24 months	95	95	–
Smits et al45	51	34 months	82	44.8	–
Delhaye et al46	110	14 years	–	66	21.4
Morgan et al35	25		–	45	–
Rösch et al127	1,018	59 months	–	65	–
Eleftheriadis et al47	100	69 months	–	70	4
Ishihara et al50	20	21 months	95	90	–
Weber et al128	17	24 months	89	83	–

Note: – not reported.