“…However, unlike standard uncovered stents, we did not find restenosis of proximal ends of the GOO tailored stents, presumably because the big stent cups and funnels provided a wider space to accommodate tumor ingrowth and the covered part of the cup and funnel provided a barrier to tumor overgrowth. In the current study, two patients did not show improvements of symptoms after stent placement, which might be due to functional gastric outlet obstruction due to neural involvement of the tumor [ 15 , 33 , 34 ].…”