Table 2. Overview of the complications most frequently encountered with ERCP and laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
| Post-ERCP pancreatitis (%)* | Cholangitis (%) | Bleeding requiring treatment (%) | Perforation (duodenum or bile duct) (%) | Wound healing disorder (%) | Bile leakage (%) | Abscess (%) | |
| ERCP without papillotomy | 1.5 | 1.0–1.4 | 0.9 | 0.7 | – | – | – |
| ERCP with papillotomy | 3.9 | 1.0–1.4 | 2.6 | 2.2 | – | – | – |
| Elective cholecystectomy | – | – | – | – | 1.7–2.0 | 0.2–0.5 | 0.07 |
| Cholecystectomy in acute cholecystitis | – | 1.3 | – | – | 2.0 | 0.99 | 0.3 |
*Clinical pancreatitis with serum amylase level at least three times higher than normal at 24 h post ERCP.
ERCP, endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography