Mitsuru Okuno, Keisuke Iwata, Takuji Iwashita, Tsuyoshi Mukai, Kota Shimojo, Yosuke Ohashi, Yuhei Iwasa, Akihiko Senju, Shota Iwata, Ryuichi Tezuka, Hironao Ichikawa, Naoki Mita, Shinya Uemura, Kensaku Yoshida, Akinori Maruta, Eiichi Tomita, Ichiro Yasuda, Masahito Shimizu
OBJECTIVES: The placement of plastic stents (PS), including intraductal PS (IS), is useful in patients with unresectable malignant hilar biliary obstruction (UMHBO) because of patency and ease of endoscopic reintervention (ERI). However, the optimal stent replacement method for PS remains unclear. METHODS: This retrospective study included 322 patients with UMHBO. Among them, 146 received PS placement as initial drainage (across-the-papilla PS [aPS], 54; IS, 92), whereas 75 required ERI...
March 14, 2024: Digestive Endoscopy: Official Journal of the Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society