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Fully covered metal stents vs plastic stents for preoperative biliary drainage in patients with resectable pancreatic cancer without neoadjuvant chemotherapy: A multicenter, prospective, randomized controlled trial.

Koichiro MandaiTakayoshi TsuchiyaHiroshi KawakamiShomei RyozawaMichihiro SaitouTomohisa IwaiTakahisa OgawaTakashi TamuraShinpei DoiYoshinobu OkabeYasutaka ChibaTakao Itoi
Published in: Journal of hepato-biliary-pancreatic sciences (2021)
Fully covered self-expanding metal stent had a lower rate of endoscopic re-intervention during the waiting period for surgery than PS, but showed more intraoperative blood loss, higher incidence of surgery-related AE, and longer postoperative hospital stays.
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