Interventional radiology cases from the royal hospital for sick children, glasgow: percutaneous metal biliary stent placement for palliation of intra-abdominal desmoplastic small round-cell tumour in a child

Abstract

Percutaneous placement of metal biliary stents for palliation of malignant processes affecting the porta hepatis is a well established technique in adults. We describe a case where the technique has been used successfully to treat obstructive jaundice in a ten-year-old boy suffering from intra-abdominal desmoplastic small round-cell tumour.