Malignant hilar strictures: One stent or two? Plastic versus self-expanding metal stents? the role of liver atrophy and volume assessment as a predictor of survival in patients undergoing endoscopic stent placement

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 736-738

  Kozarek, Richard A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIARY TRACT ENDOSCOPY; CHOLANGITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; HUMAN; LIVER ATROPHY; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER WEIGHT; MALIGNANT HILAR STRICTURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLASTIC STENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF EXPANDING METAL STENT; STENT; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOLUMETRY;

ATROPHY; BILIARY TRACT NEOPLASMS; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLESTASIS; DRAINAGE; HUMANS; LIVER; ORGAN SIZE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; STENTS;

EID: 77957559414     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2010.08.005     Document Type: Editorial

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