Iodine-125 Seeds Combined With Biliary Stent Placement Versus Stent Placement Alone For Unresectable Malignant Biliary Obstruction: A Meta-Analysis Of Randomized Controlled Trials.

Adverse events All the complications from studies primarily included abdominal pain, cholecystitis, pancreatitis, cholangitis and hemobilia, abdominal pain was the most common complication, but it did not reach statistical significance between 125 I seeds + stent group and stent alone group (p=.68) and the same with the cholecystitis (p=.60), abdominal pain (p=.35), cholangitis(p=.91) and pancreatitis ( P =.47) (Table 3 ).

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