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Stent-in-stent through a side hole to prevent biliary metallicstent migration
Author(s) -
Wiriyaporn Ridtitid,
Rungsun Rerknimitr,
Surachai Amornsawadwattana,
Yuwadee Ponauthai,
Pinit Kullavanijaya
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
world journal of gastrointestinal endoscopy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1948-5190
DOI - 10.4253/wjge.v3.i3.64
Subject(s) - stent , medicine , biliary stent , surgery
The covered self-expandable metallic stent (SEMS) has been developed to overcome the problem of tissue in-growth, However, stent migration is a well-known com--plication of covered SEMS placement. Use of a double pigtail stent to lock the movement of the SEMS and prevent migration has been advised by many ex-perts. Unfortunately, in our case this technique led to an in-cidental upward migration of the SEMS. We used APC to create a side hole in the SEMS for plastic stent insertion as stent-in-stent. This led to a successful pre-ven-tion of stent migration.

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