Making sense out of colonic stents

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 85-87

  Kozarek, Richard ^a  

^a VIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER SURGERY; COLONIC STENT; COLORECTAL CANCER; EDITORIAL; INTESTINE PREPARATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF EXPANDABLE METAL STENT; STENT; STOMACH PERFORATION; SURGICAL RISK;

COLONIC NEOPLASMS; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; STENTS;

EID: 37249071522     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2007.09.027     Document Type: Editorial

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