Self-expandable metal stents in acute malignant colonic obstruction: shall you cross this bridge?

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 74-76

  da Silveira, Eduardo ^a   Barkun, Alan N ^b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLON OBSTRUCTION; COLON PERFORATION; COLOSTOMY; EDITORIAL; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FLUOROSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURVIVAL TIME; TENESMUS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DUODENAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; STENTS;

EID: 37249038245     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2007.06.062     Document Type: Editorial

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