Initial performance profile of a new 6F self-expanding metal stent for palliation of malignant hilar biliary obstruction

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 632-636

  Chennat, Jennifer ^a   Waxman, Irving ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BARE METAL STENT; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILIARY TRACT DRAINAGE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; COLON CANCER; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; ALLOYS; BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLESTASIS, INTRAHEPATIC; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DUODENOSCOPES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS;

EID: 77956267557     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2010.04.037     Document Type: Article

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