Endoscopy has important roles in the management of primary sclerosing cholangitis(PSC),ranging fromnarrowing down the differential diagnoses,screening for complications,determining prognosis and therapy.While the need...Endoscopy has important roles in the management of primary sclerosing cholangitis(PSC),ranging fromnarrowing down the differential diagnoses,screening for complications,determining prognosis and therapy.While the need for a diagnostic endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography(ERCP)may be obviated by a positive magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography(MRCP),a negative MRCP does not exclude PSC and may therefore necessitate an ERCP,which is traditionally regarded as the gold standard.In this editorial we have not covered the endoscopic management of inflammatory bowel disease in the context of PSC nor of endoscopic surveil ance and treatment of portal hypertension complicating PSC.展开更多
文摘Endoscopy has important roles in the management of primary sclerosing cholangitis(PSC),ranging fromnarrowing down the differential diagnoses,screening for complications,determining prognosis and therapy.While the need for a diagnostic endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography(ERCP)may be obviated by a positive magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography(MRCP),a negative MRCP does not exclude PSC and may therefore necessitate an ERCP,which is traditionally regarded as the gold standard.In this editorial we have not covered the endoscopic management of inflammatory bowel disease in the context of PSC nor of endoscopic surveil ance and treatment of portal hypertension complicating PSC.
