Self-expanding metal stents in malignant biliary obstruction. evaluation of 71 cases in our unit
A Bördős, K Rábai, J Banai, T Gyökeres · Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie · 2010 · Heft 05
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Zusammenfassung
Introduction: Malignant biliary obstruction occures due to papillary-, pancreatic-, gallbladder- or bile duct tumors. Unfortunately in majority of cases the diagnosis is late and curative surgery cannot be performed. The best palliative method to resolve the jaundice is the placement of biliary metalstent into the biliary tree to bridge the stenosis. Patients and Methods: We placed biliary metalstent in 71 patients suffering inoperable malignant biliary obstruction in the last 2.5 years. There were 32 men, 39 women, median age: 72 (45–97) years. The indications were: 44 tumor of the head of the pancreas, 17 Klat…