´FORGOTTEN´ RETROPERITONEAL DOUBLE-PIGTAIL PLASTIC STENT CAUSING COLONIC FISTULIZATION AND ANEMIA 6 YEARS LATER: ENDOSCOPIC REMOVAL

Published: Apr 1, 2020
Abstract
A 72-years-old man suffering from iron deficiency anemia who had undergone an EUS-guided transgastric pseudocyst drainage with double-pigtail plastic stents 6 years earlier. During the procedure, one stent migrated into the pseudocyst and decisition was to leave it in place. Patient remained asypmtomatic for 6 years, then he developed anemia. Colonoscopy found the stent penetrating into the descending colon. After a CT-scan showing no...
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Title
´FORGOTTEN´ RETROPERITONEAL DOUBLE-PIGTAIL PLASTIC STENT CAUSING COLONIC FISTULIZATION AND ANEMIA 6 YEARS LATER: ENDOSCOPIC REMOVAL
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Apr 1, 2020
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