Benign complications of expandable metal stents used in the palliation of oesophageal carcinoma: Two case reports

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 77, Issue 915, 2004, Pages 245-247

  Metcalfe, M J ^a   Steger, A C ^b   Leslie, A ^b  

^a ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEWISHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BARIUM; METAL; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE REPORT; DRUG ERUPTION; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS BIOPSY; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS OBSTRUCTION; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER METASTASIS; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MALE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STENT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; BALLOON DILATATION; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGEAL STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; STENTS;

EID: 1642482815     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/32883350     Document Type: Article

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