Continuing progress in endoscopic drainage of walled-off pancreatic necrosis

Andres Sanchez-Yague; Ravishankar Asokkumar; Thai Nguyen-Tang

doi:10.1055/a-0587-5270

Endoscopy, Table of Contents

Endoscopy 2018; 50(06): 561-562
DOI: 10.1055/a-0587-5270

Editorial

Continuing progress in endoscopic drainage of walled-off pancreatic necrosis

Referring to Dhir V et al. p. 597–605

Authors

Andres Sanchez-Yague

¹Gastroenterology Unit, Hospital Costa del Sol, Marbella, Spain

²Department of Gastroenterology, Vithas Xanit International Hospital, Benalmadena, Spain
Ravishankar Asokkumar

³Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
Thai Nguyen-Tang

⁴Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland

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