Successful treatment of a benign biliary stricture with biodegradable metallic biliary stents.

B Background: b A 19 year old boy from a UNHCR camp presented to our hospital with an insidious onset of painless jaundice without any constitutional symptoms. It is a flexible, magnesium based stent pre-mounted on the balloon of an over-the-wire (OTW) stent delivery system. The radial strength of the biodegradable biliary stent support and maintained the patency across the distal biliary stricture. [Extracted from the article]