Leading article Minimally invasive pancreatic necrosectomy

It is timely, a decade after the first reports of minimally invasive necrosectomy (MIN), to review the progress of this procedure that now encompasses radiological, endoscopic and percutaneous techniques. The main impetus towards MIN has been the recognition that open necro-sectomy often makes patients sicker and that outcome may be improved when necrosectomy is delayed1. The situation is also influenced by the recent recognition that almost all patients with sterile pancreatic necrosis and some with infecte