Removal of Metallic Stent by Using Polyflex Stent in Esophago-Colic Anastomotic Stricture

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1913-1914

  Tunçözgür, Bülent ^a   Savaş, Muhammet Cemil ^a   Işik, Ahmet Feridun ^a   Sarimehmetoǧlu, Akin ^a   Şanli, Maruf ^a   Elbeyli, Levent ^a  

^a GAZIANTEP UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON INTERPOSITION; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS ANASTOMOSIS; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERPLASIA; JEJUNOSTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; STENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CAUSTICS; COLON; DEVICE REMOVAL; ESOPHAGEAL STENOSIS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; REOPERATION; STENTS;

EID: 33750057688     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.03.058     Document Type: Article

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