Malignant biliary duct obstruction: Long-term experience with Gianturco stents and combined-modality radiation therapy

Radiology

Volumn 200, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 717-724

  Eschelman, David J ^a   Shapiro, Marcelle J ^a   Bonn, Joseph ^a   Sullivan, Kevin L ^a   Alden, Mark E ^a,b   Hovsepian, David M ^a,c   Gardiner Jr , Geoffrey A ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b St Mary Cancer Center   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bile ducts, interventional procedure; Bile ducts, neoplasms; Bile ducts, stenosis or obstruction; Bile ducts, therapeutic radiology

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; IRIDIUM 192;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHOLANGITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INOPERABLE CANCER; JAUNDICE; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; STENT;

EID: 0029840374     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiology.200.3.8756921     Document Type: Article

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