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.
Lakhtakia
Sandeep
S
Department of Gastroenterology, Asian Institute of Gastroenterology, Somajiguda, Hyderabad, India. sandeep@lakhtakia.com
Gupta
Rajesh
R
Ramchandani
Mohan
M
Santosh
D
D
Rao
G V
GV
Reddy
D Nageshwar
DN
D002758:Cholangiography; D001651:Cholestasis, Extrahepatic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D004380:Duodenal Obstruction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D016099:Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D015607:Stents; D014463:Ultrasonography