Ultraflex stent - Benefits and risks in ultimate palliation of advanced, malignant stenosis in the esophagus

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 51, Issue 58, 2004, Pages 1021-1026

  Tomaselli, Florian ^a   Maier, Alfred ^a   Sankin, Oliver ^a   Pinter, Hans ^a   Smolle, Josef ^a   Smolle Jüttner, Freyja Maria ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Esophagus; Palliation; Stent

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COATED PARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; ESOPHAGUS STENOSIS; ESOPHAGUS STENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STENT; TRACHEA COMPRESSION; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUMOR BLEEDING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGEAL STENOSIS; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PALLIATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STENTS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3042656850     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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