Fracture of an expandable metallic stent placed for biliary obstruction due to common bile duct carcinoma

Journal of Nippon Medical School

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 164-168

  Yoshida, Hiroshi ^a   Mamada, Yasuhiro ^a   Taniai, Nobuhiko ^a   Mizuguchi, Yoshiaki ^a   Shimizu, Tetsuya ^a   Aimoto, Takayuki ^a   Nakamura, Yoshiharu ^a   Nomura, Tsutomu ^a   Yokomuro, Shigeki ^a   Arima, Yasuo ^a   Uchida, Eiji ^a   Misawa, Hirofumi ^b   Uchida, Eiichi ^b   Tajiri, Takashi ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b Uchida Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Common bile duct carcinoma; Expandable metallic stent; Fracture; Obstructive jaundice

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILE DUCT TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENT; ECHOGRAPHY; GASTROJEJUNOSTOMY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; X RAY ANALYSIS;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; CHOLESTASIS; COMMON BILE DUCT; HUMANS; MALE; METALS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; STENTS;

EID: 33745217348     PISSN: 13454676     EISSN: 13473409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1272/jnms.73.164     Document Type: Article

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