Effect of Covered Metallic Stents Compared With Plastic Stents on Benign Biliary Stricture Resolution
Author(s) -
Gregory A. Coté,
Adam Slivka,
Paul R. Tarnasky,
Daniel Mullady,
B. Joseph Elmunzer,
Grace H. Elta,
Evan L. Fogel,
Glen A. Lehman,
Lee McHenry,
Joseph Romagnuolo,
Shyam Me,
Uzma D. Siddiqui,
James L. Watkins,
Sheryl Lynch,
Cheryl Denski,
Huiping Xu,
Stuart Sherman
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
jama
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.688
H-Index - 680
eISSN - 1538-3598
pISSN - 0098-7484
DOI - 10.1001/jama.2016.2619
Subject(s) - medicine , endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography , pancreatitis , surgery , stent , randomized controlled trial , radiology , bile duct
Endoscopic placement of multiple plastic stents in parallel is the first-line treatment for most benign biliary strictures; it is possible that fully covered, self-expandable metallic stents (cSEMS) may require fewer endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography procedures (ERCPs) to achieve resolution.
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