Management of malignant biliary obstruction: Technical and clinical results using an expanded polytetrafluoroethylene fluorinated ethylene propylene (ePTFE/FEP)-covered metallic stent after 6-year experience

European Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 911-919

  Fanelli, Fabrizio ^a   Orgera, Gianluigi ^a   Bezzi, Mario ^a   Rossi, Plinio ^a   Allegritti, Massimiliano ^a   Passariello, Roberto ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biliary; Covered; Malignant; Stent; Stricture

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; NITINOL; POLITEF; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE FLUORINATED ETHYLENE PROPYLENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ALLOY; BIOMATERIAL; DRUG DERIVATIVE; FLUORINATED ETHYLENE PROPYLENE;

ADULT; AGED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BILE DUCT CANCER; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CHOLECYSTITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IN-STENT RESTENOSIS; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERIAL COATING; MORTALITY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; SURVIVAL RATE; VASCULAR PATENCY; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BILE DUCT TUMOR; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLESTASIS; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS TUMOR; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSTHESIS; RADIOGRAPHY; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLOYS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLESTASIS; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; COMMON BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; STENTS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 52049119874     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-008-0852-x     Document Type: Article

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