Fully covered metal biliary stents: A review of the literature

Table 3 Comparison of study outcomes of plastic stents and fully covered self-expandable metal stents for treatment of post-operative benign biliary strictures

Ref.	Methods	Patients	Stent placement	Followup time(mo)	Clinical success1 (%)	Recurrence (%)
Bergman et al[42]	Retrospective, single center	57	Two 10F plastic stents	24	77	20
Costamagna et al[41]	Retrospective, single center	154	Multiple plastic stents	108	96.7	12
Chaput et al[44]	Retrospective, single center	92	FCSEMS	12	84.9	21.9
Tringali et al[47]	Prospective, mult-center	187	FCSEMS	60	83.3	15.4

¹Clinical success defined as removal of stent for resolution of benign biliary stricture. FCSEMS: Fully covered self-expandable metal stents.