Fluoroscopically Guided Placement of Self-Expandable Metallic Stents and Stent-Grafts in the Treatment of Acute Malignant Colorectal Obstruction

Fluoroscopically guided placement of self-expandable metallic stents and stent-grafts for the relief of acute malignant colorectal obstruction was technically feasible without endoscopic assistance-even in lesions proximal to the splenic flexure and transverse colon-and clinically effective in both bridge to surgery and palliative management.