Placement of Polyflex stents in patients with locally advanced esophageal cancer is safe and improves dysphagia during neoadjuvant therapy

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 614-619

  Adler, Douglas G ^a   Fang, John ^a   Wong, Robert ^a   Wills, Jason ^a   Hilden, Kristen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; POLYESTER;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CENTER; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DYSPHAGIA; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; FEEDING; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; SAFETY; SCORING SYSTEM; STENT; STENT MIGRATION; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THORAX PAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; STENTS; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 70349308143     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2009.01.026     Document Type: Article

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