Through-the-esophageal-stent diagnostics and intervention of pancreaticolithiasis complicated by high-grade esophageal stricture

Luminal strictures along the endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) route to the papilla to allow for biliopancreatic endoscopy may be encountered in individual patients, precluding scope advancement. Stent implantation to allow for scope passage followed by successful through-the-scope ERCP has rarely been reported in such setting, however, to the best of our knowledge neither in terms of pancreatic indications and/or as same-session endoscopic ultrasound-ERCP, which is pioneered in this report.