Plastic or metal stents for benign extrahepatic biliary strictures: A systematic review

BMC Gastroenterology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Van Boeckel, Petra G A ^a   Vleggaar, Frank P ^a   Siersema, Peter D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL; PLASTIC;

ARTICLE; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; CHOLANGITIS; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DEATH; EMBASE; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDLINE; PANCREATITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEPSIS; STENT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE; REVIEW;

CHOLESTASIS, EXTRAHEPATIC; HUMANS; METALS; PLASTICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 74549155719     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471230X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-230X-9-96     Document Type: Article

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