Impact of a self-expanding, plastic esophageal stent on various esophageal stenoses, fistulas, and leakages: A single-center experience in 39 patients

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 812-818

  Radecke, Klaus ^a   Gerken, Guido ^a   Treichel, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS; ESOPHAGUS FISTULA; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; ESOPHAGUS STENOSIS; ESOPHAGUS SURGERY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; PNEUMOMEDIASTINUM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGY; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; STENT; TRACHEA; ULCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; DEVICE REMOVAL; ESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGEAL PERFORATION; ESOPHAGEAL STENOSIS; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASTICS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 20344391666     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-5107(05)00290-7     Document Type: Article

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