Fully covered self-expandable metal stents are effective and safe to treat distal malignant biliary strictures, irrespective of surgical resectability status

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 824-827

  Siddiqui, Ali A ^a   Mehendiratta, Vaibhav ^a   Loren, David ^a   Hong, Shih Kuang ^a   Kowalski, Thomas ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

obstructive jaundice; pancreatic cancer; stents

Indexed keywords

SILICON;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; CHOLEDOCHOJEJUNOSTOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPRESSION; DUODENUM PERFORATION; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PANCREATITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF EXPANDABLE METAL STENT; STENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80052940940     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: 15392031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCG.0b013e318211f96f     Document Type: Article

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