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Successful biliary stenting after portal vein cannulation during endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography
Kazunari Nakahara1, Takumi Komatsu2, Nobuyuki Matsumoto2
1Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, School of Medicine, St. Marianna University, Kawasaki, Japan.
Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences
|February 12, 2022
Abstract:
Highlight Cannulation of the portal vein during endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography is a rare complication. Nakahara and colleagues present a case of successful biliary stenting with a guidewire left in the portal vein after recognizing that the portal vein had been cannulated, without subsequent complications such as bleeding or air embolism.
