Self-expanding metal stents in palliation of malignant dysphagia: Outcome of 124 Egyptian patients

European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology

Volumn 267, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1123-1127

  Elsharkawy, Asser Abdel Raouf ^b   El Geidie, A A ^a  

^a MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Esophageal; Malignant; Stent; Stricture

Indexed keywords

POLYETHYLENE; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DYSPHAGIA; EGYPT; ESOPHAGO RESPIRATORY FISTULA; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS FISTULA; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEART VALVE REGURGITATION; HEARTBURN; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCLUSION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PHOTOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF EXPANDING METAL STENT; STENOSIS; STENT; THORAX PAIN; TUMOR GROWTH;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; EGYPT; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGEAL STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77955092441     PISSN: 09374477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00405-009-1198-y     Document Type: Article

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