Plastic Versus Self-Expanding Metallic Stents for the Management of Malignant Hilar Biliary Strictures

Plastic Versus Self-Expanding Metallic Stents for the Management of Malignant Hilar Biliary Strictures

Palliation of jaundice as primary or adjunctive therapy has become the standard approach to patients with unresectable malignant obstruction of the biliary hilum. However, use of plastic or self-expanding metallic stents (SEMS) as preferred management remains controversial. Information on rates of c...

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Main Author: Azar, Riad R. (author)
Other Authors: Jin, David X. (author), Wani, Sachin B. (author), Sayuk, Gregory S. (author), Hovis, Christine E. (author), Mullady, Daniel (author), Murad, Faris (author), Early, Dayna S. (author)
Format: article
Published: 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10725/4354
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gie.2011.03.772
http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php
http://www.giejournal.org/article/S0016-5107(11)00992-8/abstract
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http://hdl.handle.net/10725/4354
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gie.2011.03.772
http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php
http://www.giejournal.org/article/S0016-5107(11)00992-8/abstract

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