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A Biliary Endoprosthesis Functioning After Six Years

Author(s) -

Alan Plumer,

K. Iswara,

Jerome H. Siegel

Publication year - 1994

Publication title -

diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158

H-Index - 24

eISSN - 1029-0516

pISSN - 1026-714X

DOI - 10.1155/dte.1.113

Subject(s) - medicine , asymptomatic , biliary stent , surgery , bile duct , stent

The functional lifetime for biliary endoprostheses has typically been 7 months. When combined with sphincterotomy for common bile duct stones, it affords an alternative to surgery in high risk patients. Biliary endoprostheses often require replacement in these patients, though recent reports suggest they are functioning longer. We present an 85-year-old asymptomatic woman with a 6-year-old biliary endoprosthesis, believed to be the longest functioning stent reported in the literature.

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