Items Tagged ‘biliary stents’
January 15, 2010
Plastic Preop Biliary Stents Are Not Problem Free
In patients undergoing surgery for cancer of the pancreatic head, routine preoperative biliary drainage using a plastic stent increased the rate of serious complications, a multicenter, randomized trial showed. Within about four months, nearly three-quarters (74%) of those in the drainage group had had a serious complication compared with 39% of those who went directly […]
Tags: biliary stents