Comparison of radiation exposure between endoscopic ultrasound-guided drainage and transpapillary drainage by endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography for pancreatobiliary diseases.
Mamoru TakenakaMakoto HosonoMadan M RehaniYasutaka ChibaRei IshikawaAyana OkamotoTomohiro YamazakiAtsushi NakaiShunsuke OmotoKosuke MinagaMamoru TakenakaKentaro YamaoShiro HayashiTsutomu NishidaMasatoshi KudoPublished in: Digestive endoscopy : official journal of the Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society (2021)
This is the first study to assess radiation exposure in EUS-D compared with that in ERCP-D. Radiation exposure was significantly higher in EUS-D than in ERCP-D, despite the shorter procedure time.