Nitinol stents for palliative treatment of malignant obstructive jaundice: Should we stent the sphincter of Oddi in every case?

CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 245-248

  Hatzidakis, Adam A ^a   Tsetis, Dimitris ^a   Chrysou, Evangelia ^a   Sanidas, Elias ^a   Petrakis, John ^a   Gourtsoyiannis, Nicholas C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cholangitis; Metallic stents; Percutaneous biliary intervention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOLANGITIS; ENDOPROSTHESIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NITINOL STENT; OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE; ODDI SPHINCTER; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STENT; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLOYS; BILIARY TRACT NEOPLASMS; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLESTASIS, EXTRAHEPATIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; SPHINCTER OF ODDI; STENTS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0034774059     PISSN: 01741551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00270-001-0030-x     Document Type: Article

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