Is stenting necessary after balloon dilation of post-transplantation biliary strictures? Results of a prospective comparative study

Endoscopy

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 746-751

  Kulaksiz, Hasan ^a   Weiss, K H ^b   Gotthardt, D ^b   Adler, G ^a   Stremmel, W ^b   Schaible, A ^b   Dogan, A ^b   Stiehl, A ^b   Sauer, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; BALLOON DILATATION; BILE DUCT DISEASES; BILIARY TRACT SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPATIC DUCT, COMMON; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS;

EID: 51549110129     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1077489     Document Type: Article

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