ReviewEndoscopic ultrasound
Efficacy and safety of EUS biliary drainage in malignant distal and hilar biliary obstruction: A comprehensive review of literature and algorithm.
Review in Endoscopic ultrasound. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 27 citations in OpenAlex.
- Local palliative therapies for unresectable malignant biliary obstruction: radiofrequency ablation combined with stent or biliary stent alone? An updated meta-analysis of nineteen trials.Surgical endoscopy · 2022Pooled it
- Endoscopic ultrasound-guided choledochoduodenostomy as a life-saving salvage therapy for post-transplant acute biliary obstruction.Endoscopy · 2026Article
- Diagnosis of bile duct metastasis from gastric cancer by endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography combined with choledochoscopy: A case report.World journal of gastrointestinal surgery · 2026Article
- Article
- Feasibility of Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Hepaticogastrostomy for Malignant Hilar Biliary Obstruction.Digestive diseases and sciences · 2025Article
- Hepaticoduodenostomy in Combined Endoscopic Ultrasound-Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography Biliary Drainage for Malignant Hilar Biliary Obstruction.GE Portuguese journal of gastroenterology · 2024Article
- The Lambda stenting technique: a new approach to address EUS-guided biliary drainage-associated adverse events.VideoGIE : an official video journal of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy · 2024Review
- EUS-guided hepaticogastrostomy versus percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage after failed ERCP: A propensity score-matched analysis.Endoscopy international open · 2024Article
- Predicting early biliary infection after stenting of malignant biliary obstruction: model development and internal validation.Abdominal radiology (New York) · 2023Article
- Endoscopic ultrasound-guided intervention for inaccessible papilla in advanced malignant hilar biliary obstruction.Clinical endoscopy · 2023Review
- Endoscopic Ultrasound Guided Biliary Drainage in Malignant Distal Biliary Obstruction.Cancers · 2023Review
- Stenting with high-intensity focused ultrasound ablation for distal biliary obstruction caused by pancreatic carcinoma: a meta-analysis.Przeglad gastroenterologiczny · 2022Article
- Hot topics in therapeutic EUS.Endoscopic ultrasoundArticle
- Chinese expert consensus on the clinical practice of EUS-guided biliary drainage (2024, Shanghai).Endoscopic ultrasoundArticle
- Learning in therapeutic EUS.Endoscopic ultrasoundArticle
- Ingrown and exteriorized hilar tumor through hepaticogastrostomy stent causing upper gastrointestinal bleeding (with video).Endoscopic ultrasoundArticle
- Efficacy of EUS-guided hepaticogastrostomy in prolonging survival of patients with perihilar cholangiocarcinoma.Endoscopic ultrasoundArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors at 3 institutions in 4 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Malignant biliary obstruction (MBO) encompasses a variety of malignancies arising from the pancreaticobiliary system. This can be divided into malignant hilar biliary obstruction (MHBO) or malignant distal biliary obstruction (MDBO) biliary obstruction to which clinical outcomes and technical considerations of various biliary drainage methods may differ. EUS biliary drainage (EUS-BD) has been increasingly influential in the management of MBO together with other familiar biliary drainage methods such as ERCP and percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD). Conventionally, ERCP has always been the primary choice of endoscopic biliary drainage in both MHBO and MDBO and that PTBD or EUS-BD is used as a salvage method when ERCP fails for which current guidelines recommends PTBD, especially for MHBO. This review was able to show that with today's evidence, EUS-BD is equally efficacious and possesses a better safety profile in the management of MBO and should be on the forefront of endoscopic biliary drainage. Therefore, EUS-BD could be used either as a primary or preferred salvage biliary drainage method in these cases.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.