Top tips for endoscopic biliary stenting for hilar obstruction

Post written by Ryan Law, DO, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA. The focus of this manuscript was very simple. I aimed to identify what I believe are the most important pearls for successful endoscopic management of patients with biliary hilar obstruction. The goal was to simplify this topic into …

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Plastic biliary stent patency

Phillip S. Ge, MD and V. Raman Muthusamy, MD from the Division of Digestive Diseases, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA discuss their Original Article, "Plastic biliary stent patency in patients with locally advanced pancreatic adenocarcinoma receiving downstaging chemotherapy." Malignant biliary obstruction due to pancreatic cancer is a challenging clinical …

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