A 39-Year-Old Woman with an Isolated Pancreatic Duct Stricture

Moderator’s Introduction

I am very pleased to welcome an old friend, Dr. Jerry Siegel of New York, as this month’s Guest Discussant. Dr. Siegel has been involved in gastrointestinal endoscopy in general, and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) in particular, since the early days; he is certainly one of the pioneers of modern gastrointestinal endoscopy. Welcome, Dr. Siegel!

I have asked him to review and offer his comments regarding a case we managed some years ago at Duke University Medical Center (DUMC). To protect the identity of the patient, some of the details of her case have been altered, but the overall management issues are unchanged.

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