Endoscopic ultrasound-guided biliary drainage with placement of a fully covered metal stent for malignant biliary obstruction

Table 2 Summary of published studies and current study on endoscopic ultrasound-guided biliary drainage with metal stent

Study	No. of EUS-BD-metal biliary stents	Technical success %	Clinical success %	Type of metal stent	Procedure-related complications (No. cases)
Will et al[6]	6	100	83.3	Partially covered (3), uncovered (3)	Cholangitis (1)
Artifon et al[27]	1	100	100	Partially covered	None
Bories et al[3]	11	91	100	Partially covered metal stent (3)	Biloma (1), cholangitis (1)
Park et al[9]	9	100	100	Fully covered	Pneumoperitoneum (2)
Park et al[28]	5	100	100	Fully covered	None
Siddiqui et al[29]	8	100	100	Fully covered	Duodenal perforation (1)
This study	13	92.3	91.7	Fully covered	Mild peritonitis (2)

EUS-BD: Endoscopic ultrasound-guided biliary drainage.