Percutaneous Stent Placement for Pancreatic Duct Stricture in a Patient with Previous Gastric and Pancreatic Surgery

Successful Surgical Removal of Firmly Impacted Pancreatic Duct Stent: Two Case Report

“…Pancreatic stents are used for a variety of different pancreatic disorders: pancreatic duct stones, chronic pancreatitis, pancreatic strictures, unresectable pancreatic cancer, preventing POPF and post-ERCP pancreatitis, papillary adenoma [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]. Conventionally the pancreatic duct stents placement are done by endoscopic transpapillary procedure, but recently there are increasingly more reports of feasibility of percutaneous imageguided pancreatic duct (PD) drainage and stenting ,which appears to be a safe and effective procedures, but it should be noted that these procedures also are not without any complications and may have some adverse events [9][10][11][12][13][14]23,24]. Two cases of firmly impacted pancreatic stents removal recently observed in our institution led us to report our experience of successful management of these particular cases.…”