Endoscopic ultrasound-guided antegrade stenting in an occluded biliary self-expandable metal stent

Abstract

Endoscopic ultrasound-guided biliary drainage (EUS-BD) is an attractive option for patients who cannot undergo conventional endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) and do not want surgery or percutaneous drainage procedures. We present the use of EUS-antegrade (EUS-AG) insertion of a self-expandable metal stent (SEMS) in a patient with a common hepatic duct cholangiocarcinoma, as well as a huge gastric lipoma, after recurrent biliary obstruction of a prior SEMS inserted via ERCP in the same session as a duodenal stent insertion for gastric outlet obstruction.

Keywords

• Biliary drainage
• endoscopic ultrasonography
• endoscopic ultrasound-guided biliary drainage
• self-expandable metal stents
• stents