Endoscopic ultrasound-guided biliary stent placement using Soehendra stent retriever

Sandeep Lakhtakia; Rajesh Gupta; Mohan Ramchandani; D Santosh; G V Rao; D Nageshwar Reddy

Endoscopic ultrasound-guided biliary stent placement using Soehendra stent retriever

Indian J Gastroenterol. 2007 Jul-Aug;26(4):178-9.

Authors

Sandeep Lakhtakia¹, Rajesh Gupta, Mohan Ramchandani, D Santosh, G V Rao, D Nageshwar Reddy

Affiliation

¹ Department of Gastroenterology, Asian Institute of Gastroenterology, Somajiguda, Hyderabad, India. [email protected]

PMID: 17986747

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.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Cholangiography
Cholestasis, Extrahepatic / diagnostic imaging
Cholestasis, Extrahepatic / etiology
Cholestasis, Extrahepatic / surgery*
Duodenal Obstruction / diagnostic imaging
Duodenal Obstruction / surgery*
Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal / methods*
Female
Humans
Middle Aged
Pancreatic Neoplasms / complications
Pancreatic Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
Pancreatic Neoplasms / surgery*
Stents*
Ultrasonography