Wallstents versus plastic stents in malignant biliary obstruction: Effects of stent patency of the first and second stent on patient compliance and survival

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 654-659

  Schmassmann, Adrian ^b   Von Gunten, Elisabeth ^b   Knuchel, Jürg ^b   Scheurer, Ulrich ^b   Fehr, Hans Friedrich ^b   Halter, Fred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASTIC;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CANCER; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; ENDOPROSTHESIS; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER CANCER; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERIAL STATE; PANCREAS CANCER; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STENT; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHOLESTASIS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GALLBLADDER NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; PALLIATIVE CARE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PLASTICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAINLESS STEEL; STENTS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029967848     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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