Assessment of safety and patency of 7-mm covered metal stents for preoperative biliary drainage in pancreatic cancer: Prospective multicenter study

• Hirotoshi Ishiwatari,
• Yousuke Kobayashi,
• Shinya Kawaguchi,
• Takuji Iwashita,
• Junichi Kaneko,
• Jun Ito,
• Kazuma Ishikawa,
• Junya Sato,
• Fumitaka Niiya,
• Shinya Endo,
• Tatsunori Satoh,
• Shinya Uemura,
• Keita Mori

Affiliations

Hirotoshi Ishiwatari

ORCiD

Division of Endoscopy, Shizuoka Cancer Center

Yousuke Kobayashi

Department of Gastroenterology, Seirei Hamamatsu Hospital, Hamamatsu, Japan

Shinya Kawaguchi

ORCiD

Department of Gastroenterology, Shizuoka General Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan

Takuji Iwashita

First Department of Internal Medicine, Gifu University Hospital, Gifu, Japan

Junichi Kaneko

Department of Gastroenterology, Iwata City Hospital, Iwata, Japan

Jun Ito

Department of Internal Medicine II, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

Kazuma Ishikawa

Division of Endoscopy, Shizuoka Cancer Center, Nagaizumi, Japan

Junya Sato

Division of Endoscopy, Shizuoka Cancer Center, Nagaizumi, Japan

Fumitaka Niiya

ORCiD

Division of Endoscopy, Shizuoka Cancer Center, Nagaizumi, Japan

Shinya Endo

Department of Gastroenterology, Shizuoka General Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan

Tatsunori Satoh

ORCiD

Department of Gastroenterology, Shizuoka General Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan

Shinya Uemura

First Department of Internal Medicine, Gifu University Hospital, Gifu, Japan

Keita Mori

Division of Clinical Trials, Shizuoka Cancer Center, Sunto-gun, Japan