Designer stents: are we there yet?

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 804-808

  Wassef, Wahid ^a   Syed, Irfan ^a  

^a UMASS MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILIARY TRACT DRAINAGE; BYPASS SURGERY; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLESTASIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; STENTS;

EID: 34648847299     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2007.07.004     Document Type: Editorial

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