Management of malignant biliary stricture with self-expanding metallic stent

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 970-973

  Vitale, G C ^a   Larson, G M ^a   George, M ^a   Tatum, C ^b  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^b Norton Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Biliary stricture; ERCP; Metallic stents; Wallstents

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; BILIARY TRACT TUMOR; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION; STENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; BILIARY TRACT NEOPLASMS; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS;

EID: 0030266814     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004649900216     Document Type: Article

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