… Expandable metallic stents can be placed with fluoroscopic guidance, endoscopic guidance…
division, stent insertion with endoscopic or combined endoscopic-fluoroscopic guidance will …

… metal stents (LAMS) are integrated in a single-step delivery platform and can be deployed
under endoscopic … organs that can facilitate further endoscopic interventions if required. A …

… -apposing metal stent (LAMS) is a saddle shaped metal stent … guidance of X-ray and
endoscopic ultrasound (EUS). Although … -cautery cyctotome and the metal stent releasing system, …

… in whom all other endoscopic interventions have failed (multiple dilations with or without
corticosteroid injection, and/or needle-knife incision) as a final endoscopic therapy before …

… of endoscopic interventions was 2 (range, 1–9 interventions). … -pigtail stents alongside direct
endoscopic necrosectomy (… plastic stents, biliary fully covered self-expanding metal stents (…

… newer stent designs and delivery systems, metallic stents are … The use of metallic stents
is not intended to be curative but … of endoscopy is the support provided by the endoscope to …

… endoscopically. In seven (36%) patients, the initial disorder had resolved after stent removal
and no further endoscopic interventions … after stent removal. In 10 (53%) patients, a repeat …

… minimize stent occlusion with solid debris. Furthermore, larger-diameter stents permit
subsequent direct endoscopic intervention through the LAMS (eg, necrosectomy). These stents are …

… requiring endoscopic intervention remained … stents (both DPPSs and LC lumen-apposing
metal stents) either passed spontaneously with the stool or were retrieved endoscopically …

… Endoscopy concluded that self-expanding metal stents are more cost-effective than
plastic stents [ … The additional initial costs of metal stents will be offset by reduction in re-intervention …