Endoscopic palliative treatment of gastrointestinal tumors;Endoskopische Palliativbehandlung bei Tumoren des Gastrointestinaltraktes

Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 687-696

  Bottger Th ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endoscopy; Gastrointestinal tumors; Palliative treatment; Review

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; HUMAN; OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE; QUALITY OF LIFE; STENT;

ENDOSCOPES; ENDOSCOPES, GASTROINTESTINAL; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PALLIATIVE CARE; STENTS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0031829402     PISSN: 0044409X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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