Fully covered self-expandable metallic stents versus plastic stents for preoperative biliary drainage in patients with pancreatic head cancer and the risk factors for post-endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography pancreatitis.
Fumisato KozakaiTakahisa OgawaShinsuke KoshitaYoshihide KannoHiroaki KusunoseToshitaka SakaiKeisuke YonamineKazuaki MiyamotoHideyuki AnanHaruka OkanoKento HosokawaKei ItoPublished in: DEN open (2023)
FCSEMSs are thought to be preferable to PSs for PBD due to their longer time to recurrent biliary obstruction. Being female and the lack of main pancreatic duct dilation were risk factors for PEP.