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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Endosc Int Open 2021; 09(12): E1917
DOI: 10.1055/a-1591-0833
Letter to the editor

Role of ERCP in acute biliary pancreatitis: yet unanswered

Chhagan Lal Birda
Department of Gastroenterology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
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Ashish Agarwal
Department of Gastroenterology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
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We read with great interest the article by Novikov et al. where they reported that endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) decreased in-hospital mortality and length of hospital stay in patients of acute gall stone-induced pancreatitis without cholangitis (AGPNC) [1].



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