D'Costa H, Toy E, Dennis M J, Brown C
Department of Radiology, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, UK.
Br J Radiol. 1994 Dec;67(804):1270-1. doi: 10.1259/0007-1285-67-804-1270.
The endoscopic placement of stents to decompress biliary obstruction is accepted practice in the management of malignant biliary strictures. In our patient, a 73-year-old man with a presumed malignant common hepatic duct stricture, palliation of his obstructive jaundice has been achieved. However, his clinical course was complicated by a colonic perforation--a previously unreported complication of distal stent migration.
