Intrahepatic biliary enteric bypass provides effective palliation in selected patients with malignant obstruction at the hepatic duct confluence

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 175, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 453-460

  Jarnagin, William R ^a   Burke, Edmund ^a   Powers, Christina ^a   Fong, Yuman ^a   Blumgart, Leslie H ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILIARY TRACT DRAINAGE; BLEEDING; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GALLBLADDER CARCINOMA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; STENT; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA; CHOLESTASIS, EXTRAHEPATIC; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER NEOPLASMS; HEPATIC DUCT, COMMON; HUMANS; JEJUNUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0032101614     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9610(98)00084-1     Document Type: Article

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