Upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage secondary to erosion of a biliary Wallstent in a woman with pancreatic cancer

Endoscopy

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 661-663

  Gardiner, M F ^a   Long, W B ^a   Haskal, Z J ^a   Lichtenstein, G R ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; DUODENUM BLEEDING; DUODENUM FISTULA; FEMALE; HUMAN; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; CHOLESTASIS, EXTRAHEPATIC; DUODENAL DISEASES; DUODENUM; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GASTRIC OUTLET OBSTRUCTION; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; INTESTINAL FISTULA; NEOPLASM STAGING; PALLIATIVE CARE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; STENTS; VASCULAR FISTULA;

EID: 0033941350     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2000-4662     Document Type: Article

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