Table 3. Review of literature about EUS-BD.

Author	Patients	Technical success	Clinical success	Incidence of AEs	Centers and study types
Kunda et al.	57	98.2 %	94.7 %	7 %	7 tertiary care centers, retrospective
Anderloni et al.	46	93.4 %	97.7 %	11.6 %	Single tertiary care center, retrospective
Tsuchiya et al.	19	95 %	95 %	15.8 %	5 Asian tertiary care centers; prospective
Jacques et al.	52	89 %	100 %	Early:4 % Late:14 %	French multicenter study; retrospective
El Chafic et al.	67	96 %	100 %	Early:8 % Late:18 %	US multicenter study; retrospective
Paik WH et al.	64 EUS vs 61 ERCP	93.8 % vs 90.2 %	90.0 % vs 94.5 %	6.3 % vs 19.7 %	Multicenter randomized controlled trial
Bang JY et al.	33 EUS vs 34 ERCP	90,9 % vs 94,1 %	97 % vs 91.2 %	21.2 % vs 14.7 %	Single-center, single-blind, randomized comparative trial
Khashab MA et al.	22 EUS vs 51 PTBD	86,4 % vs 100 %	86.4 % vs 92.2 %	15.7 % vs 80.4 %	Single tertiary care center; comparative

EUS, endoscopic ultrasound; ERCP, endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography; PTBD, percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage.