Is endoscopic treatment beneficial in patients with clinically suspicious of common bile duct stones but no obvious filling defects during the ERCP examination?

Table 5 Risk factors of the patients with post-ERCP pancreatitis

Characteristics	Post-ERCP pancreatitis (+)	Post-ERCP pancreatitis (−)	P-value	OR	95 % CI of OR
	(n = 7)	(n = 134)
Procedure
EST/EPBD	3 (42.9 %)	27 (20.1 %)	0.442	0.523	0.100 ~ 2.735
CBDS probability from ASGE
CBDS risk (high vs. intermediate)	2 (28.6 %)	111 (82.8 %)	0.007*	0.093	0.017 ~ 0.523

*p < 0.01; correlation between procedure and CBDS probability from ASGE showed no significance
(p = 0.456)

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