Severe biliary hemorrhage after metal stent placement into the bile duct

Abstract

Sugimoto and colleagues report a rare case of life-threatening biliary hemorrhage as a complication of stent placement into the bile duct in a patient undergoing chemotherapy. The report illustrates that, if a patient placed metal stent shows an unexplainable anemia, biliary hemorrhage should be considered even without extravasation or pseudoaneurysms.