Percutaneous drainage treatment of traumatic pancreatic rupture with pancreatic transection.

Management of traumatic pancreatic pseudocyst associated with pancreatic duct laceration is controversial. Surgical therapy has been clasically considered the treatment of choice for those pseudocysts. However, several authors have published good results with percutaneous drainage.

Balloon sphincteroplasty and transpapillary elimination of bile duct stones: 10 years' experience.

Objective: The usual way for interventional radiology to treat stones in the bile duct involves their extraction with Dormia baskets. The technique of dilating the sphincter with a balloon and the transpapillary elimination of the stones has only sporadically been reported in the literature. In this article, we describe our experience with this technique.