Percutaneous Placement of Biliary Metallic Stents in Patients with Malignant Hilar Obstruction: Unilobar versus Bilobar Drainage

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1409-1416

  Inal, Mehmet ^a   Akgül, Erol ^a   Aksungur, Erol ^a   Seydaoǧlu, Gülşah ^a  

^a CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER CANCER; GRAFT PATENCY; HEPATIC DUCT; HUMAN; INOPERABLE CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT;

EID: 0242440720     PISSN: 10510443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.RVI.0000096762.74047.A6     Document Type: Article

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