Occlusion rate and complications of plastic biliary stent placement in patients undergoing neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy for pancreatic cancer with malignant biliary obstruction

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 452-455

  Boulay, Brian R ^a   Gardner, Timothy B ^a   Gordon, Stuart R ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

biliary stents; extrahepatic cholestasis; neoadjuvant therapy; pancreatic neoplasms

Indexed keywords

CETUXIMAB; DOCETAXEL; GEMCITABINE; LIVER ENZYME; PLASTIC;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHOLANGITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; MALE; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; ADENOCARCINOMA; ADJUVANT THERAPY; BILE DUCT; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; COMPLICATION; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; ENDOSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BILE DUCTS; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; PALLIATIVE CARE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PLASTICS; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953800536     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCG.0b013e3181d2ef06     Document Type: Article

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