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Retrieval of impacted esophageal stent in the ileum with double balloon enteros- copy : a novel technique

Journal Volume 77 - 2014
Issue Fasc.1 - Letters
Author(s) Jarred E. Marshak, Anik M. Patel, David M. Friedel, Stavros N. Stavropoulos
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Winthrop University Hospital, Mineola, NY.

A 36-year-old man presented with a two day history of epigastric abdominal pain and vomiting. His medical -history-was-significant-for-a-sleeve-gastrectomy-in-2010 complicated by post-operative gastroesophageal junction leak with four prior attempts at endoscopic stent therapy with- OverStitchTM- fixation.- - A- plain- film- of- the- chest identified-three-proximally-placed-self-expandable-stents at- 25-cm- from- entry.- Additionally,- one- Niti-S- stent (Taewong Medical, Seoul, Korea) was noted to have migrated distally to the ileum. Esophagogastroduodenos- copy-(EGD)-was-carried-out-and-the-three-proximal-stents were-removed-under-fluoroscopic-guidance.-

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