Self-expandable coated stent after intraluminal treatment of esophageal cancer: A risky procedure?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 781-784

  Maier, Alfred ^a,b   Pinter, Hans ^a   Friehs, Gerhard B ^a   Renner, Heiko ^a   Smolle Jüttner, Freyja M ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM 192;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ESOPHAGOJEJUNOSTOMY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; MALE; MORTALITY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; STENTS;

EID: 0032965026     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(98)01258-2     Document Type: Article

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