Clinical outcomes of nitinol and stainless steel uncovered metal stents for malignant biliary strictures: Is there a difference?

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1195-1200

  Weston, Brian R ^a   Ross, William A ^a   Liu, Jun ^a   Lee, Jeffrey H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Abbreviations; N; Nitinol; Self expandable metal stent; SEMS; SS; Stainless steel

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; NITINOL; STAINLESS STEEL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BARE METAL STENT; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLECYSTITIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMMON BILE DUCT; COMMON BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUODENUM CARCINOMA; DUODENUM PERFORATION; DUODENUM ULCER; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; GALLBLADDER CANCER; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT BILIARY STRICTURE; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREATITIS; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PERITONEUM CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SARCOMA; SELF EXPANDABLE METAL STENT; STOMACH CANCER; TREATMENT FAILURE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLOYS; AMPULLA OF VATER; CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA; CHOLESTASIS, EXTRAHEPATIC; COMMON BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEPATIC DUCT, COMMON; HUMANS; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RECURRENCE; RETREATMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAINLESS STEEL; STENTS;

EID: 78649522136     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2010.08.035     Document Type: Article

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