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SUBMITTER: Nakai Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5488525 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May-Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nakai Yousuke Y Isayama Hiroyuki H Matsubara Saburo S Koike Kazuhiko K
Endoscopic ultrasound 20170501 3
Endoscopic ultrasound-guided biliary drainage (EUS-BD) has been increasingly reported as an alternative to percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage in failed endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography. Moreover, conversion to EUS-BD can be a good alternative when transpapillary biliary drainage is technically possible but complicated by cholangitis because EUS-BD enables one-step internal drainage not traversing the tumor. Herein, we report a case of recurrent cholangitis due to hemobilia ...[more]