Removable colonic stenting: time to expand the indications?

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 721-723

  Farrell, James J ^a   Sack, Jonathan ^b  

^a Division Of Digestive Diseases

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS; BALLOON DILATATION; BILE LEAKAGE; COLON DISEASE; COLON FISTULA; COLON OBSTRUCTION; COLON STRICTURE; COLOSTOMY; DEVICE REMOVAL; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PERFORATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTUM CANCER; STENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR GROWTH;

BALLOON DILATATION; COLONIC DISEASES; COLONOSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; PALLIATIVE CARE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; STENTS;

EID: 53049103034     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2008.04.044     Document Type: Editorial

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