Table 1. Patient Characteristics.

Mean age (SD), years	74.3 (14.7)
Male, n	8
Primary cancer, n
Pancreatic cancer	6
Gastric cancer	3
Biliary tract cancer	2
Hepatocellular carcinoma	1
Reasons for EUS-HGS, n
Failed ERCP	6
Failed passage of the endoscope due to a malignant duodenal stricture	4
Failed passage of the endoscope due to a malignant afferent loop stricture with recurrence of cancer	2

SD: standard deviation; EUS-HGS: endoscopic ultrasound-guided hepaticogastrostomy; ERCP: endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography.