Stent as a bridge to surgery for colonic obstruction: Do we really need more systematic reviews with meta-analysis of the same articles?

Affiliations

¹ Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Unit, Hospital das Clínicas, University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, Brazil.
² Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Unit, Hospital das Clínicas, University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, Brazil; Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
³ Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

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Igor Braga Ribeiro et al. Gastrointest Endosc. 2019 Oct.

. 2019 Oct;90(4):704-705.

doi: 10.1016/j.gie.2019.05.036.

¹ Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Unit, Hospital das Clínicas, University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, Brazil.
² Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Unit, Hospital das Clínicas, University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, Brazil; Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
³ Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

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Arezzo A, Lo Secco G, Passera R, Morino M. Arezzo A, et al. Gastrointest Endosc. 2019 Oct;90(4):705-706. doi: 10.1016/j.gie.2019.06.021. Gastrointest Endosc. 2019. PMID: 31540646 No abstract available.

Stent as bridge to surgery for left-sided malignant colonic obstruction reduces adverse events and stoma rate compared with emergency surgery: results of a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.
Arezzo A, Passera R, Lo Secco G, Verra M, Bonino MA, Targarona E, Morino M. Arezzo A, et al. Gastrointest Endosc. 2017 Sep;86(3):416-426. doi: 10.1016/j.gie.2017.03.1542. Epub 2017 Apr 6. Gastrointest Endosc. 2017. PMID: 28392363