Incidence and management of cystic duct perforation during endoscopic transpapillary gallbladder drainage for acute cholecystitis.
Kazunari NakaharaJunya SatoRyo MoritaYosuke MichikawaKeigo SuetaniYosuke IgarashiAkihiro SekineShinjiro KobayashiTakehito OtsuboFumio ItohPublished in: Digestive endoscopy : official journal of the Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society (2021)
Cystic duct perforation reduced the ETGBD technical success rate. However, even in patients with cystic duct perforation, an improvement of acute cholecystitis was achieved by subsequent successful ETGBD or additional procedures, such as percutaneous drainage.