Rectal guiding tube to facilitate distal colonic stent insertion

Australasian Radiology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 275-277

  Chaitowitz, I M ^a,b   Bell, K W ^a  

^a WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acute colonic obstruction; Colon cancer; Colonoscopy; Guiding tube; Self expanding metallic stents

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIATRIZOATE; GASTROGRAFFIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON OBSTRUCTION; COLONOSCOPE; DESCENDING COLON; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM; RISK ASSESSMENT; STENT; TUBE;

COLONIC DISEASES; COLONOSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RECTUM; STENTS;

EID: 33744761887     PISSN: 00048461     EISSN: 14401673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1673.2006.01580.x     Document Type: Article

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