Endoscopic treatment of a broken pancreatic stent
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Endoscopic removal of a broken self-expandable metal stent using the stent-in-stent technique.
A 55-year-old man with dysphagia due to an unresectable distal esophageal adenocarcinoma underwent placement of a 15-cm partially covered self-expandable metal stent (SEMS), diameter 18mm (Ultraflex; Boston Scientific, Natick, Massachusetts, USA). After 3 months, he presented with recurrent dysphagia. At endoscopy, the meshes of the SEMS had broken, leading to collapse of the SEMS and obstructi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Polish Archives of Internal Medicine
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1897-9483
DOI: 10.20452/pamw.2359