PMC9900231_01
Straight (arrowhead) and double-pigtail plastic stents (arrow) placed in the malignant hilar biliary stricture.
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F1
Twelve months previously, she had undergone an endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography; thus, a 7 Fr 10 cm straight plastic stent and a 7 Fr 11 cm double-pigtail plastic stent were placed in the hilar biliary stricture (Fig. 1).
Abdominal radiography revealing migration of a broken pigtail stent (arrows) and normal position of a straight stent (arrowhead).
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F2
Unexpectedly, abdominal radiography revealed that the pigtail stent had been broken and migrated (Fig. 2).