Self-expanding metal stents versus plastic prostheses in the palliation of malignant dysphagia: Long-term outcome of 153 consecutive patients

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 877-885

  Eickhoff, Axel ^a   Knoll, Matthias ^a   Jakobs, Ralf ^a   Weickert, Uwe ^a   Hartmann, Dirk ^a   Schilling, Dieter ^a   Eickhoff, Jens C ^b   Riemann, Jürgen F ^a  

^a KLINIKUM LUDWIGSHAFEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Endoscopic stenting; Malignant dysphagia; Plastic tube; Self expanding metal stent

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METAL STENT; PAIN; PERFORATION; PLASTIC STENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS LOOSENING; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSTERNAL PAIN; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STENT; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, ADENOSQUAMOUS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; METALS; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PLASTICS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 27144555769     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mcg.0000180631.61819.4a     Document Type: Article

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