Table 1 Patient characteristics

Patient characteristics:

 Number of patients:

163

 Number of interventions:

206

 Median age (range)

66 (36–96)

Tumor diagnosis

Number of patients (%)

 Pancreatic carcinoma

60 (37)

 Cholangiocellular carcinoma

34 (21)

 Colorectal carcinoma

19 (12)

 Hepatocellular carcinoma

9 (6)

 Gastric cancer

8 (5)

 Breast cancer

8 (5)

 Neuroendocrine tumor of the digestive tract

6 (4)

 Tumor of unknown origin

5 (3)

 Ovarian carcinoma

3 (2)

 Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm (IPMN)

2 (1)

 Lymphoma

1 (1)

 Other tumors

8 (5)

Laboratory parameters before ERC

Median (SD)

 Bilirubin (mg/dl)

4.5 (6.83)

 CRP (mg/l)

36.2 (62.11)