TABLE 3a.

Treatments and complications in all endoscopic biliary stenting.

	Total	IS	PS
	n = 216	n = 89	n = 127	p‐value
Number of stents, 1/2, n	161/55	50/39	111/16
Stent size, 5Fr/7Fr/8.5Fr/10Fr, n	5/90/98/23	0/30/59/0	5/60/39/23
Post‐ERC complications, n (%)	28 (13%)	17 (19.1%)	11 (8.7%)	0.025
Pancreatitis	5 (2.3%)	3 (3.4%)	2 (1.6%)	0.41
Hyperamylasemia	11 (5.1%)	3 (3.4%)	8 (6.3%)	0.53
Acute cholangitis	7 (3.2%)	7 (7.7%)	0 (0%)	0.002
Elevation of biliary enzymes	5 (2.3%)	4 (4.5%)	1 (0.8%)	0.16

Abbreviations: ERC, endoscopic retrograde cholangiography; IS, Inside stent; PS, plastic stent.