title: Endoscopic ultrasound-guided biliary stent placement using Soehendra stent retriever.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology, Asian Institute of Gastroenterology, Somajiguda, Hyderabad, India. sandeep@lakhtakia.com
authors.forename: Sandeep
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lakhtakia
authors.forename: Rajesh
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.forename: Mohan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ramchandani
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Santosh
authors.forename: G V
authors.initials: GV
authors.lastname: Rao
authors.forename: D Nageshwar
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Reddy
mesh_terms: 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