Endoscopic placement of a covered stent to arrest bleeding from obstructing colorectal cancer

Covered self-expandable metal stents might represent a valid adjunctive to arrest hemorrhage in patients with obstructing, bleeding colorectal cancer, in whom the usual techniques have failed. In our center, in the last 16 years more than 160 patients were treated with self-expandable metal stents to relieve malignant colorectal obstruction. Eight patients with malignant colorectal obstruction had placement of a covered self-expandable metal stent to arrest a residual hemorrhage, after treatment with Argon laser.