Colorectal stenting as first-line treatment in acute colonic obstruction

Table 1 Some series about self-expanding metal stents in malignant colorectal obstruction published in the last years n (%)

Ref.	Publication year	No. of patients	Technical success	Clinical success	Perforation rate
García-Cano et al[4]	2006	175	162 (92.6)	138 (78.8)	7 (4)
Ptok et al[12]	2006	48	44 (92)	44 (92)	0
Soto et al[13]	2006	62	58 (93.54)	56 (90.3)	3 (4.8)
Karoui et al[14]	2007	31	30 (97)	27 (87)	0
Lee et al[15]	2007	80	78 (97.5)	77 (96.2)	0
1Repici et al[16]	2007	44	42 (95.4)	41 (93.1)	0
Repici et al[17]	2008	42	40 (95.2)	40 (95.2)	1 (2.38)
Im et al[18]	2008	51	51 (100)	43 (84.3)	1 (1.9)
Fernández-Esparrach et al[19]	2010	47	44 (94)	44 (94)	3 (7)
Small et al[20]	2010	233	224 (96.1)	222 (95.2)	18 (7.7)
Park et al[21]	2010	151	149 (98.6)	140 (92.7)	0
Branger et al[22]	2010	93	86 (92.5)	80 (86)	3 (3.2)
Donnellan et al[23]	2010	43	40 (93)	40 (93)	2 (4.6)
Lee JH et al[24]	2010	46	46 (100)	39 (84.8)	2 (4.3)
Lee HJ et al[25]	2011	71	68 (95.8)	68 (94)	4 (5.6)
Luigiano et al[26]	2011	39	36 (92.3)	35 (89.7)	2 (5.1)
Jiménez-Pérez et al[27]	2011	182	177 (98)	141 (94)	5 (3)
Tominaga et al[28]	2012	24	24 (100)	20 (83)	0
Yoshida et al[29]	2013	33	33 (100)	32 (97)	0
Bonfante et al[30]	2013	48	46 (96)	46 (96)	1 (2)

¹In 2007, there are two articles published by Repici et al. One about the Ultraflex Precision stent in the left colon and the other on right colon stenting.