title: Small bowel perforation after duodenal stent migration: An interesting case of a rare complication.
abstract: Duodenal stents are frequently used for palliating malignant gastric outlet obstruction. Successful stent placement relieves obstructive symptoms, is cost effective, and has a relatively low complication rate. However, enteral stents have the potential of migrating distally and rarely, even lead to bowel perforation. We present a rare case of a duodenal stent placed as a palliative measure for gastric outlet obstruction due to unresectable pancreatic cancer that migrated distally after a gastrojejunostomy resulting in small bowel perforation.
authors.affiliation: Peter HU Lee, Robert Moore, Akshay Raizada, Department of Surgery, Tufts University School of Medicine, St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, Boston, MA 02135, United States.
authors.forename: Peter Hu
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Moore
authors.forename: Akshay
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Raizada
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Grotz