Covered self-expanding metal stents in benign biliary strictures: not yet a "new paradigm" but a promising alternative

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 455-457

  Costamagna, Guido ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLESTASIS; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; DUODENOSTOMY; EDITORIAL; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; PATHOGENESIS; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; STENT; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION;

CHOLESTASIS; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; DEVICE REMOVAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; METALS; PATIENT SELECTION; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; STENTS;

EID: 39149130739     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2007.10.006     Document Type: Editorial

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