Correlation of Chronic Pancreatitis Pathology Features With Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) Criteria

Indiana University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Pancreatitis

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01442441

0809-67

Details and patient eligibility

About

In this research project the investigators intend to find out if Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) criteria for diagnosing chronic pancreatitis can be correlated with pathologic characteristics of tissues taken from pancreas of patients with suspected chronic pancreatitis.

This will be a retrospective study which will examine results from biopsy specimens and endoscopic ultrasound findings in suspected chronic pancreatitis.

Enrollment: 400 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• will include all patients who consented to have both EUS and had biopsy taken for tissue diagnosis.

Exclusion criteria

• Will exclude patients who are less than 18 years

Trial design

400 participants in 1 patient group

chronic pancreatitis