Prospective, randomized, single-center trial comparing 3 different 10F plastic stents in malignant mid and distal bile duct strictures

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 54-58

  Schilling, Dieter ^a   Rink, Günter ^a   Arnold, Joachim C ^a   Benz, Claus ^a   Adamek, Henning E ^a   Jakobs, Ralf ^a   Riemann, Jürgen F ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLITEF; POLYURETHAN; BIOMATERIAL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERIALS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STENT; SURFACE PROPERTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BILE DUCT TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; INTRAHEPATIC CHOLESTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PROSTHESIS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION; SURVIVAL;

AGED; BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLESTASIS, INTRAHEPATIC; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYURETHANES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STENTS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0347019530     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mge.2003.319     Document Type: Article

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