Clinical experience with covered Wallstents for biliary malignancies: 23-month follow-up

CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 441-447

  Rossi, Plinio ^a   Bezzi, Mario ^a   Salvatori, Filippo M ^a   Panzetti, Claudio ^a   Rossi, Michele ^a   Pavia, Gianluca ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biliary malignancy; Biliary stenting; Covered stents; Metallic stents; Tumoral ingrowth

Indexed keywords

POLYURETHAN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILIARY TRACT ENDOSCOPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT;

AGED; BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; CHOLESTASIS, EXTRAHEPATIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; POLYURETHANES; RECURRENCE; STENTS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0030775959     PISSN: 01741551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002709900190     Document Type: Article

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