Use of fully covered self-expanding metal stents in benign biliary diseases

Table 3 Some studies on covered self-expanding metal stents for benign biliary strictures with more than 10 patients

Author	No. ofpatients	Type ofstent	BBS etiology	Mean time to removal (mo)	Clinical success (%)
Cantu[22]	14	PCSEMS	CP	21	37.50
Kahaleh[23]	79	PCSEMS	CP/OLT/BS/IM/PS	4	90
Mahajan[24]	44	FCSEMS	CP/OLT/BS/IM/PS	3.3	83
Traina[25]	16	FCSEMS	OLT/LRLT	2	81
Park[13]	43	FCSEMS	CP/OLT/BS/PS	6	84
García- ano[26]	14	FCSEMS	IM/BS	5.5	78.50
Chaput[10]	22	PCSEMS	OLT	2	52.60
García-Pajares[27]	22	FCSEMS	OLT	3.2	95.50
Behm[28]	22	PCSEMS	CP	5	72.70

PCSEMS: Partially covered self-expanding metal stents; FCSEMS: Fully covered self-expanding metal stents; CP: Chronic pancreatitis; OLT: Orthotopic liver transplantation; BS: Biliary stone disease; IM: Inflammatory; PS: Post-surgery; LRLT: Living-related liver transplantation; BBS: Benign boliary strictures.