Unilateral placement of metallic stents for malignant hilar obstruction: A prospective study

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 50-53

  De Palma, Giovanni D ^a,b   Pezzullo, Angelo ^a   Rega, Maria ^a   Persico, Marcello ^a   Patrone, Francesco ^a   Mastantuono, Luigi ^a   Persico, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILIARY TRACT DRAINAGE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CHOLANGITIS; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INOPERABLE CANCER; JAUNDICE; LIVER ABSCESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT HILAR BILIARY OBSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; STENT; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BILE DUCT TUMOR; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; INSTRUMENTATION; INTRAHEPATIC CHOLESTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE;

METAL;

AGED; BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLESTASIS, INTRAHEPATIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; METALS; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STENTS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0346468729     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mge.2003.310     Document Type: Article

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