Covered biliary metal stent: Which are worse - The concepts, current models, or insertion methods?

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1329-1330

  Isayama, Hiroyuki ^a   Nakai, Yousuke ^a   Tsujino, Takeshi ^a   Togawa, Osamu ^a   Kogure, Hirofumi ^a   Koike, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; COVERED METAL STENT; DEGRADATION; LETTER; MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STENT; TUMOR GROWTH;

ALLOYS; BILIARY TRACT NEOPLASMS; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLESTASIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PALLIATIVE CARE; STENTS;

EID: 79957792637     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2011.01.036     Document Type: Letter

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