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Endoscopic stenting is a medical procedure by which a stent, a hollow device designed to prevent constriction or collapse of a tubular organ, is inserted by endoscopy.They are usually inserted when a disease process has led to narrowing or obstruction of the organ in question, such as the esophagus or the colon.
Cystogastrostomy is a surgery to create an opening between a pancreatic pseudocyst and the stomach when the cyst is in a suitable position to be drained into the stomach. [1] This conserves pancreatic juices that would otherwise be lost. [2] This surgery is performed by a pancreatic surgeon to avoid a life-threatening rupture of the pancreatic ...
Endoscopic image of a biliary stent seen protruding from the ampulla of Vater at the time of duodenoscopy. Pancreatic and biliary stents provide pancreatic and bile drainage from the gallbladder, pancreas, and bile ducts to the duodenum in conditions such as ascending cholangitis due to obstructing gallstones.
Insertion of a stent through the major duodenal papilla and ampulla of Vater into the common bile duct and/or the pancreatic duct; Dilation of strictures (e.g. primary sclerosing cholangitis, anastomotic strictures after liver transplantation) [5] Extraction of liver flukes from the biliary system (e.g., opisthorchiasis, clonorchiasis, fasciolosis)
Fluoroscopic image of self-expandable metallic stent in the esophagus. The black solid structure is the endoscope used to place the stent. Self-expandable metallic stents are typically inserted at the time of endoscopy, usually with assistance with fluoroscopy or x-ray images taken to guide placement. Prior to the development of SEMS small ...
Needle-knife fistulotomy or pancreatic stent placement followed by precut sphincterotomy are two of several techniques that have been used to account for the increased difficulty. [ 11 ] Surgically altered anatomy (Billroth II): if a patient has undergone a partial gastrectomy with Billroth II anastomosis, the papilla may appear to be upside ...
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In medicine, a pancreatectomy is the surgical removal of all or part of the pancreas.Several types of pancreatectomies exist, including pancreaticoduodenectomy (Whipple procedure), distal pancreatectomy, segmental pancreatectomy, and total pancreatectomy.