Successful removal of a migrated plastic stent using a new endoscopic sheath

Removal of a torn biliary stent fragment using a novel tapered-tip sheath system

“…In patients with hilar biliary stricture, inside stents sometimes migrate and break during the removal process, leaving fragments of the stent in the bile duct, from where their removal is technically challenging 3 . Recent reports have described the removal of foreign bodies from the bile duct using this novel device 4 5 . Notably in this case, the device enabled reliable removal of a floating foreign body in a narrow peripheral bile duct upstream of a severe biliary stricture.…”