Table 3.
DPDS characteristics according to location of disruption
| Characterristic | Proximal (head or neck) N = 22 |
Distal (body or tail) N = 9 |
p value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age (year)a | 36 (23~70) | 30 (24~54) | 0.877 |
| Male | 19 (86.4%) | 5 (55.6%) | 0.150 |
| Etiology | 0.704 | ||
| AP | 10 | 5 | 0.600 |
| Biliary | 6 | 4 | |
| Nonbiliary | 4 | 1 | |
| Trauma | 12 | 4 | |
| Interval between discovering pseudocyst or fistula and DPDS (months)a | 6.8 (0.5~84) | 5.0 (1.0~48) | 0.711 |
| PFCs | 11 | 5 | > 0.99 |
| Diameter of PFC (cm)a | 2.5 (2.0~11.4) | 5.6 (2.2~7.6) | 0.571 |
| ETD | 11 | 6 | 0.456 |
| ≥ 2 stent insertion | 3 | 3 | 0.622 |
| Pancreatic debridement before ERCP | 8 (36.4%) | 1 (11.1%) | 0.220 |
| CT guided puncture Before ERCP | 7 (31.8%) | 4 (44.4%) | 0.683 |
| EUS guided puncture Before ERCP | 1 (4.5%) | 1 (11.1%) | 0.503 |
| Developed DM | 2/18 (11.1%) | 1/8 (11.1%) | > 0.99 |
| Developed diarrhea | 3/18 (16.7%) | 0/8 (0.0%) | 0.529 |
| Developed atrophy | 10/18 (55.6%) | 0/8 (0.0%) | 0.009 |
aDescribed as median with range
PFCs peripancreatic fluid collections, ETD Endoscopic transpapillary drainage, DM diabetes mellitus