Single-pigtail plastic stent made from endoscopic nasobiliary drainage tubes in endoscopic ultrasound-guided gallbladder drainage: a retrospective case series

Technical failure of endoscopic ultrasound-guided gallbladder drainage (EUS-GBD) Arabic Wall Clock is often attributed to device failure.To rectify this problem, we developed a single-pigtail plastic stent (SPPS) for EUS-GBD.We retrospectively reviewed the cases of four patients who underwent EUS-GBD for acute cholecystitis.To prepare the SPPS, a 7

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New findings into the genetic population structure of two commercially valuable and threatened sharks, Mustelus mustelus (Linnaeus, 1758) and M. punctulatus (Risso, 1827), allow refining management strategy in the Central Mediterranean Sea

Elasmobranch species are the direct or accidental catch of fisheries and can have a commercial importance.In the Mediterranean Sea, a long-term period of overfishing brought several demersal Twin Metal Bed elasmobranchs to be depleted and threatened by extinction, due to vulnerability related to their life history traits.In such exploited species,

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Starch Biosynthesis in Crop Plants

Starch is a water-insoluble polyglucan synthesized inside the plastids of plant tissues to provide a store of carbohydrate.Starch harvested from plant storage organs has probably represented the major source of calories for the human diet since before the dawn of civilization.Following the advent of agriculture and the building of complex societies

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