There was no statistically significant difference in stent patency, but use of a triple-layered covered SEMS was associated with less frequent stent dysfunction more than 4 weeks after stenting, despite similar short-term outcomes.

A newly designed J-shaped tip guide-wire has the possibility to facilitate selective biliary cannulation for ERCP and appears to be safe.

EST before sphincteroplasty may be unnecessary in EPLBD. Further investigations are needed to verify the relationship between the presence or absence of balloon waist disappearance.

gradually aggravated over time. The skin extended and became sclerotic because of severe edema, liquid leaked from abdominal skin injuries, and the condition became similar to skin lymphorrhea in lymphedema. Neoplastic cardiac tamponade due to gastric cancer has an extremely low incidence and a poor prognosis. We encountered a patient in whom pericardial effusion caused subcutaneous edema in the trunk and lower limbs after percutaneous pericardial drainage was applied to treat carcinomatous pericarditis associated with gastric cancer.