Cholangiocarcinoma: A 7-year experience at a single center in Greece

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 14, Issue 40, 2008, Pages 6213-6217

  Alexopoulou, Alexandra ^a   Soultati, Aspasia ^a   Dourakis, Spyros P ^a   Vasilieva, Larissa ^a   Archimandritis, Athanasios J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cholangiocarcinoma; Palliative biliary drainage; Surgical resection; Survival

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BILIARY TRACT DRAINAGE; BILIARY TRACT SURGERY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JAUNDICE; LIVER DISEASE; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; BILE DUCT TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; INSTRUMENTATION; INTRAHEPATIC BILE DUCT; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STENT; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; BILE DUCTS, INTRAHEPATIC; BILIARY TRACT SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, MAGNETIC RESONANCE; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STENTS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 63449130434     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.14.6213     Document Type: Article

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