“…In addition, these stents are expected to be epithelialised within a few weeks. In human medicine, complications of oesophageal self-expanding metallic stents include re-obstruction, stent migration, pain, perforation and oesophageal ulcers (Gukovsky-Reicher et al 2003, Wai et al 2005, Eloubeidi & Lopes 2009, Schembre 2010, Eloubeidi et al 2011, Liu et al 2012, Adler 2013, Dua et al 2014, Gangloff et al 2015, Van Halsema & van Hooft 2015, Spaander et al 2016, Tandon et al 2019.…”