Pancreatic necrosis often results in main pancreatic duct injury and eventual discontinuity, or so-called disconnected pancreatic duct syndrome (DPDS), with recurrent symptoms from duct obstruction

Many patients with walled-off pancreatic necrosis (WON) require debridement following minimally invasive drainage. This often entails serial procedures with cumulative expense and risk. These authors

Drainage of a pancreatic pseudocyst ECN 2018