A decade of day-case endoscopically guided stent placement in malignant oesophagogastric strictures

Background Self-expanding metal stents (SEMSs) are the palliative treatment of choice for rapid symptomatic relief in patients with malignant dysphagia. Increasingly endoscopically guided insertion is performed as a day case and without the need for fluoroscopic guidance. This consecutive case series reports 11-year experience of endoscopically guided SEMS insertion in a large UK specialist oesophagogastric unit.