Palliative treatment with metallic stents for unresectable gallbladder carcinoma involving the portal vein and bile duct

Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 331-335

  Tanaka, Jun Ichi ^a   Andoh, Hideaki ^a   Yoshioka, Masato ^a   Furuya, Tomoki ^a   Asanuma, Yoshihiro ^a   Koyama, Kenji ^a  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biliary obstruction; Intra arterial infusion chemotherapy; Palliative treatment of advanced gallbladder carcinoma; Portal vein stenosis; Self expandable metallic stent

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BILE DUCT; CARCINOMA; CASE REPORT; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLESTASIS; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GALLBLADDER TUMOR; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PORTAL VEIN; RADIOGRAPHY; STENT;

BILE DUCTS; CARCINOMA; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLESTASIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GALLBLADDER NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PORTAL VEIN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STENTS;

EID: 0033643277     PISSN: 09441166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005340070058     Document Type: Article

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