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Endoscopic Management of Pancreaticobiliary Disease: Updates and Future Directions

A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Gastroenterology & Hepatopancreatobiliary Medicine".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2026 | Viewed by 1

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Department of Gastroenterology, Gifu Municipal Hospital, 7-1 Kashimacho, Gifu 500-8513, Japan
Interests: pancreaticobiliary disease; ERCP; interventional EUS; tissue acquisition; early detection of pancreaticobiliary malignancy; management of AEs

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Endoscopic management of pancreaticobiliary disease encompasses a wide range of diagnostic and therapeutic approaches, including imaging evaluation, tissue acquisition via transpapillary or EUS-guided techniques, and various interventional ERCP and EUS procedures. Among these, interventional EUS has advanced rapidly, introducing major innovations in both diagnosis and therapy.

Recent diagnostic advances include the development of refined EUS-guided tissue acquisition needles, the application of genome profiling for precision medicine, and the discovery of novel biomarkers. On the therapeutic side, EUS-guided biliary and pancreatic duct drainage, along with procedures performed through an endosonographically created route, necrosectomy of walled-off necrosis, and gastrojejunostomy, are continuously evolving and have been widely adopted in clinical practice. However, treatment strategies for various techniques have yet to be fully established. In addition, these procedures, as well as conventional endoscopic treatments for benign and malignant pancreaticobiliary diseases, occasionally remain technically challenging, and the management of procedure-related adverse events continues to represent an important clinical issue. Moreover, the early detection of pancreatic and biliary malignancies remains difficult, and effective surveillance strategies for high-risk populations are still under development.

For this Special Issue, we welcome submissions focusing on diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy, the management of complications, imaging and pathology, and device development in the endoscopic management of pancreaticobiliary disease.

Dr. Keisuke Iwata
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • pancreaticobiliary disease
  • ERCP
  • interventional EUS
  • tissue acquisition
  • early detection of pancreaticobiliary malignancy
  • management of AEs

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