Polyurethane-covered Nitinol Strecker stents as primary palliative treatment of malignant biliary obstruction

CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 114-120

  Kanasaki, Shuzo ^a   Furukawa, Akira ^a   Kane, Teruyuki ^b   Murata, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b Yujinkai Yamazaki Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biliary obstruction; Covered stents; Endoprosthesis; Jaundice; Malignancy; Metallic stents

Indexed keywords

POLYURETHAN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILIARY TRACT CANCER; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENDOPROSTHESIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GALLBLADDER CANCER; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSHEPATIC CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLOYS; BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; CHOLESTASIS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; POLYURETHANES; STENTS; SURVIVAL RATE; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 0033994396     PISSN: 01741551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002709910023     Document Type: Article

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