Journal of Interventional Radiology 2015;(6):553-555

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1008-794X.2015.06.022

Successful placement of nutrition tube via transhepatic route for duodenal obstruction due to pancreatic cancer:report of one case

Zhongzhi JIA ; Feng TIAN ; Kai WANG ; Guomin JIANG

Keywords

pancreatic cancer; duodenal obstruction; nutrition tube

Country

China

Language

Chinese

Abstract

Usually the survival period of patients with duodenal obstruction caused by inoperable advanced pancreatic cancer is rather short. For such patients, minimally invasive treatment should be employed as the first choice. This paper reported a case with advanced pancreatic cancer complicated by biliary and duodenal obstruction. After implantation of biliary stent, the obstructive jaundice was relieved. Because of the insufficient cardiac function, the patient was not able to tolerate gastrojejuostomy; besides, as both DSA-guided stent implantation and endoscopic nutrition tube placement failed to success, implantation of nutrition tube via the trans-hepatic and biliary route, as a novel tube placement technique, had to be carried out, and the result in this case was satisfactory.