A successful rendezvous endoscopic ultrasonography-guided gallbladder drainage in malignant cystic duct obstruction
Gastrointestinal Intervention
; : 180-182, 2017.
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ABSTRACT
Endoscopic ultrasonography-guided gallbladder drainage (EUS-GBD) has been developed as an alternative drainage method in patients with malignant cystic duct obstruction. However, the procedure of track dilation is difficult in case of severe gallbladder wall thickening with tumor involvement or inflammation. The rendezvous technique via external fistulous track is considered in failed attempts to dilate an internal track between the gallbladder and the stomach/duodenum using conventional approach of EUS-GBD. This report presents a 56-year-old man with pancreatic cancer with malignant cystic duct obstruction who underwent percutaneous transhepatic gallbladder drainage. The patient was successfully treated using rendezvous EUS-GBD technique after he failed the conventional EUS-GBD procedure of internal track dilation.
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Main subject:
Pancreatic Neoplasms
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Drainage
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Endosonography
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Cystic Duct
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Gallbladder
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Inflammation
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Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Gastrointestinal Intervention
Year:
2017
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Article