Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Gallbladder Drainage for Aberrant Right Posterior Duct Obstruction Developing after Placement of a Covered Self-Expandable Metallic Stent in a Patient with Distal Biliary Obstruction

Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Gallbladder Drainage for Aberrant Right Posterior Duct Obstruction Developing after Placement of a Covered Self-Expandable Metallic Stent in a Patient with Distal Biliary Obstruction

Endoscopic ultrasound-guided gallbladder drainage (EUS-GBD) has been utilized as an alternative endoscopic technique for patients with acute cholecystitis. In addition to EUS-guided hepaticogastrostomy and EUS-guided cystogastrostomy, EUS-GBD has been reported as being useful for biliary drainage in...

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Main Authors: Yuko Suzuki, Yusuke Hashimoto, Taro Shibuki, Motoyasu Kan, Gen Kimura, Kumiko Umemoto, Kazuo Watanabe, Mitsuhito Sasaki, Hideaki Takahashi, Hiroshi Imaoka, Izumi Ohno, Shuichi Mitsunaga, Masafumi Ikeda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Karger Publishers 2018-11-01
Series:Case Reports in Gastroenterology
Subjects:
Endoscopic ultrasound-guided gallbladder drainage
Anatomical anomaly of the bile duct
Aberrant hepatic duct
Biliary drainage
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