Healing Occurs in Most Patients That Receive Endoscopic Stents for Anastomotic Leakage; Dislocation Remains a Problem

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 202-210

  Feith, Marcus ^a   Gillen, Sonja ^a   Schuster, Tibor ^a   Theisen, Jörg ^a   Friess, Helmut ^a   Gertler, Ralf ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cancer Surgery; Cancer Therapy; Esophageal Cancer; Gastric Cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC STENT; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGOCOLONOSTOMY; ESOPHAGOGASTROSTOMY; ESOPHAGOJEJUNOSTOMY; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HEALING; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; STENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANASTOMOTIC LEAK; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGECTOMY; GASTRECTOMY; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79951704438     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2010.12.010     Document Type: Article

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