Thermoplastic stents: A new concept for endoluminal prosthesis

Endoscopy

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 49-53

  Freudenberg, S ^a   Hartel, M ^a   Fernandez, F ^a   Schuster, K L ^a   Kammermaier, V ^b   Haberstroh, J ^b   Schmoll, J ^c   Manegold, B C ^c   Hasse, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c MEDICAL FACULTY MANNHEIM HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASTIC;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIOMECHANICS; DOG; ESOPHAGUS STENOSIS; GRANULATION TISSUE; IMPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRACHEA;

ANIMALS; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; DOGS; ESOPHAGEAL STENOSIS; HUMANS; PLASTICS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; STENTS; TEMPERATURE; TRACHEAL STENOSIS;

EID: 0033956197     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2000-131     Document Type: Article

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