Film Overview

Michael Wallace, MD, Associate Professor at the Mayo Medical School and Director of Endoscopic Research at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida demonstrates the role of EUS in the evaluation of a patient with chronic pancreatitis with special attention to the techniques for imaging the pancreas with a radial echoendoscope and the criteria for diagnosing chronic pancreatitis. Michael Wallace, MD demonstrates a pancreatic cystic neoplasm with an unexpected finding highlighting the role of EUS-guided fine needle aspiration. Michael Wallace, MD uses EUS to detect a tumor within the bile duct suggestive of cholagiocarcinoma that originally presented as a probably pancreatic mass. Robert Hawes, MD of the Medical University of South Carolina shows us how to perform EUS-guided celiac plexus blockade, a technique for controlling pain in pancreatic disease.