Clinical Outcomes of Palliative Biliary Stent Placement (704)
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Endoscopic ultrasound-guided biliary stent placement using Soehendra stent retriever.
Symptomatic bilary obstruction with duodenal nar-rowing requires either surgical or percutaneous biliary drainage procedure. We report a 54-year-old woman suffering from carcinoma of the head of pancreas, who had combined duodenal and bilary obstruction and underwent successful endoscopic ultrasound-guided transduodenal biliary stent placement.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0885-3924
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2011.12.182