Plastic or metal stents for malignant stricture of the common bile duct? Results of a randomized prospective study

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 178-182

  Kaassis, Mehdi ^b   Boyer, Jean ^a   Dumas, Rémi ^b   Ponchon, Thierry ^b   Coumaros, Dimitri ^b   Delcenserie, Richard ^b   Canard, Jean Marc ^b   Fritsch, Jacques ^b   Rey, Jean François ^b   Burtin, Pascal ^b  

^a ANGERS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BILE DUCT DISEASE; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SPHINCTEROTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0345074098     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mge.2003.66     Document Type: Article

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