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SUBMITTER: Al-Kawas F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5813390 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Al-Kawas Firas F Aslanian Harry H Baillie John J Banovac Filip F Buscaglia Jonathan M JM Buxbaum James J Chak Amitabh A Chong Bradford B Coté Gregory A GA Draganov Peter V PV Dua Kulwinder K Durkalski Valerie V Elmunzer B Joseph BJ Foster Lydia D LD Gardner Timothy B TB Geller Brian S BS Jamidar Priya P Jamil Laith H LH Keswani Rajesh N RN Khashab Mouen A MA Lang Gabriel D GD Law Ryan R Lichtenstein David D Lo Simon K SK McCarthy Sean S Melo Silvio S Mullady Daniel D Nieto Jose J Bayne Selby J J Singh Vikesh K VK Spitzer Rebecca L RL Strife Brian B Tarnaksy Paul P Taylor Jason R JR Tokar Jeffrey J Wang Andrew Y AY Williams April A Willingham Field F Yachimski Patrick P
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<h4>Background</h4>The optimal approach to the drainage of malignant obstruction at the liver hilum remains uncertain. We aim to compare percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD) to endoscopic retrograde cholangiography (ERC) as the first intervention in patients with cholestasis due to suspected malignant hilar obstruction (MHO).<h4>Methods</h4>The INTERCPT trial is a multi-center, comparative effectiveness, randomized, superiority trial of PTBD vs. ERC for decompression of suspected MH ...[more]