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EUS-guided biliary drainage is infrequently used even in high-volume centers of interventional EUS

2016; Elsevier BV; Volume: 84; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.gie.2016.03.020

1097-6779

Ryosuke Tonozuka, Takao Itoi, Takayoshi Tsuchiya, Reina Tanaka, Shuntaro Mukai,

Pediatric Hepatobiliary Diseases and Treatments

EUS-guided biliary drainage (EUS-BD) has become an alternative procedure to percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD) in failed ERCP. Recently, the efficacy and high rate of adverse events of EUS-BD have been reported.1-5 We describe the actual use of EUS-BD in our hospital, one of the largest referral centers of ERCP and interventional EUS in Japan.