Polyflex Expandable Stents in the Treatment of Esophageal Disease: Initial Experience

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1968-1973

  Pennathur, Arjun ^a   Chang, Andrew C ^b   McGrath, Kevin M ^a   Steiner, Gregory ^a   Alvelo Rivera, Miguel ^a   Awais, Omar ^a   Gooding, William E ^c   Christie, Neil A ^a   Gilbert, Sebastien ^a   Landreneau, Rodney J ^a   Luketich, James D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN;

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS DISEASE; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLUX ESOPHAGITIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STENT; THORAX PAIN; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGEAL STENOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYETHYLENE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SILICONE ELASTOMERS; STENTS; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 43849109182     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.01.095     Document Type: Article

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