Background and aim: Malignant hilar obstruction usually presents in advanced-stage disease with a poor prognosis. Effective biliary drainage is essential for the beginning of palliative chemotherapy.

4 Einthoven Laboratory for Experimental Vascular Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands Correspondence to Professor Dr J W Jukema, Department of Cardiology C5-P, Leiden ...

According to the guidelines, the optimal diagnostic work-up of LTS patients relies both on a comprehensive anamnesis and on endoscopic and radiological assessments. All the causes of LTS result in an ...

Objective Residual or recurrent adenoma (RRA) after endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) of large non-pedunculated colorectal polyps (LNPCPs) of ≥20 mm is a major limitation. Data on outcomes of the ...

2 China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Beijing, China Background The outcome of deploying balloon-mounted stents for symptomatic intracranial atherosclerotic stenosis ...

Once inflated, an expandable mesh tube (called a stent) can be inserted to keep the vessel open. Because balloon angioplasty is used to correct severely impaired blood flow, the benefits of treatment ...

Eighteen patients with advanced, unresectable antropyloric stenosis were randomized to endoscopic stenting with 10 cm long covered SEMS (Ultraflex covered stent system, Boston Scientific ...

Background Whether the safety and efficacy of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty and stenting (PTAS) is significantly different from that of medical treatment alone for symptomatic intracranial ...

The primary role of ERCP in the management of CCA is to provide palliation of obstructive jaundice in patients with a limited life expectancy. The aims of palliation are the relief of jaundice and ...

The entire duodenal lumen is then distended with approximately 25 mL of the iodinated contrast medium iodixanol (Visipaque; GE Healthcare, Chicago, IL, USA) diluted in 100 mL of 0.9% saline solution ...

Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is a procedure to diagnose and treat problems in the liver, gallbladder, bile ducts, and pancreas. It combines X-ray and an endoscope—a long, ...