Muhammad Hamza Sheik, Maira Jamal, Muhammad Ali Channa, Rabbia Zubair.
Life threatening complications after an unsuccessful Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography: a rare case scenario.
Pak J Surg Jan ;37(2):144-8.

Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is one of the main-stay diagnostic as well as therapeutic procedure for hepato-biliary and pancreatic diseases. Life-threatening complications such as pneumo-peritoneum, pneumo-retroperitoneum, pneumo-mediastinum, subcutaneous emphysema and pneumo-thorax related to this procedure rarely occur and only a few of these have been reported in the literature. Case Report: Here we report a case of 38-year-old female patient in which she developed acute abdominal symptoms with subcutaneous emphysema and left -sided pneumo-thorax due to duodenal perforation following Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography on 17th of June 2019.

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