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Necrotizing fasciitis: fatal complication of migrated biliary stent
1Department of Radiology, Gooi-Noord Hospital, Blaricum, Netherlands.
Australasian Radiology
|February 1, 1996
Abstract:
The major drawbacks of biliary stents are occlusion and migration. Most distally migrated stents pass spontaneously. In the presented case, however, the migrated stent perforated the sigmoid colon and led to necrotizing fasciitis.