New ePTFE/FEP-covered stent in the palliative treatment of malignant biliary obstruction

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 581-589

  Bezzi, Mario ^a   Zolovkins, Aleksejs ^a   Cantisani, Vito ^a   Salvatori, Filippo Maria ^a   Rossi, Michele ^a   Fanelli, Fabrizio ^a   Rossi, Plinio ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bile ducts; Bile ducts, stents and prostheses; Stenosis or obstruction; Stents and prostheses

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; FLUORINATED ETHYLENE PROPYLENE; LIVER ENZYME; NITINOL; POLITEF; PROPYLENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DRUG DERIVATIVE;

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMON BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORTALITY; POLITEF IMPLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; ANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLESTASIS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASE; DRUG EFFECT; LIFE TABLE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR PATENCY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLESTASIS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; STENTS; SURVIVAL RATE; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 0036017475     PISSN: 10510443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1051-0443(07)61651-0     Document Type: Article

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