Table 3.
Successful rate of device insertion and stent placement.
| Common Bile Duct Stone (n = 80) | Malignant Biliary Obstruction (n = 60) | Cholecystitis (n = 30) |
Total (n = 170) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Device insertion | ||||
| Extraction balloon | 100% (65/65) | — | — | 100% (65/65) |
| Basket | 100% (17/17) | — | — | 100% (17/17) |
| ML | 100% (17/17) | — | — | 100% (17/17) |
| Brush catheter | — | 100% (22/22) | — | 100% (22/22) |
| Stent placement | ||||
| ENBD | 100% (27/27) | 100% (6/6) | — | 100% (33/33) |
| ENGBD | — | — | 100% (12/12) | 100% (12/12) |
| Plastic stent | 100% (9/9) | 97.2% (35/36) | 100% (12/12) | 98.2% (57/58) |
| Metallic stent | — | 100% (14/14) | — | 100% (14/14) |
ML, Mechanical lithotripter. ENBD, Endoscopic nasobiliary drainage. ENGBD, Endoscopic nasobiliary gallbladder drainage.