Polyflex stents for malignant oesophageal and oesophagogastric stricture: A prospective, multicentric study

European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 195-203

  Conigliaro, Rita ^a   Battaglia, Giorgio ^b   Repici, Alessandro ^c   De Pretis, Giovanni ^d   Ghezzo, Luigi ^e   Bittinger, Max ^c   Messmann, Helmut ^c   Demarquay, Jean François ^h   Togni, Michele ^d   Blanchi, Sabrina ^g   Filiberti, Rosangela ^f   Conio, Massimo ^g  

^a General Hospital   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c Humanitas ^*  (Germany)

^d SANTA CHIARA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e S CROCE E CARLE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^g Sanremo Hospital   (Italy)

^h CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE NICE   (France)

Author keywords

Cancer; Dysphagia; Oesophagus; Plastic stent

Indexed keywords

PLASTIC;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS OBSTRUCTION; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPLANT; LUNG CANCER; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; STENT; SURVIVAL TIME; THYROID TUMOR; TUMOR GROWTH;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGEAL STENOSIS; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PLASTICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33847011769     PISSN: 0954691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MEG.0b013e328013a418     Document Type: Article

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