Expert Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2012;6(1):105-114. When double-stent placement (duodenal and biliary) is considered, biliary stent placement can be performed either preceding or following ...

Expert Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2012;6(1):105-114. When parallel stent deployment is considered, after guidewire placement on both sides, a plastic stent is first placed and a SEMS deployed on ...

The stent system, created by Boston Scientific, is the only biliary metal stent in the U.S. that lasts up to 12 months in the treatment of benign biliary strictures secondary to chronic pancreatitis.

As a possible solution, the team developed the antibiofilm magnetic-controlled liquid-bodied robot. According to its ...

This is made possible by the release of a short, self-expanding metal stent under echo-endoscopic ... performed the procedure on a patient with duodenal and biliary stenosis secondary to a stage ...

"Patients in the nonoperative group were primarily readmitted for recurrent biliary disease as opposed ... like endoscopic drainage with a lumen-opposing metal stent, might influence outcomes ...

SAN DIEGO -- For endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided transluminal draining of pancreatic pseudocysts, plastic stents appeared ...

SAN DIEGO -- For endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided transluminal draining of pancreatic pseudocysts, plastic stents appeared as safe and effective as lumen-apposing metal stents (LAMS) in a ...

As robotic cholecystectomy, also known as gallbladder removal, becomes increasingly common, researchers have identified ...