Peripheral cutting balloon in the management of resistant benign ureteral and biliary strictures: Long-term results

Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 39-41

  Atar, Eli ^a   Bachar, Gil N ^a   Eitan, Mor ^a   Graif, Franklyn ^a   Neyman, Haim ^a   Belenky, Alexander ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Balloon dilatation; Common bile duct; Ureter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; BILE DUCT BYPASS; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC PAPILLOTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT SAFETY; PELVIS CANCER; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; RADIOTHERAPY; RESTENOSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER STENT; URETER STRICTURE; VATER PAPILLA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BALLOON DILATATION; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SPHINCTEROTOMY, ENDOSCOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETERAL OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 33947136400     PISSN: 13053825     EISSN: 13053612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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