Metallic stents are more efficacious than plastic stents in unresectable malignant hilar biliary strictures: a randomized controlled trial

Mukai, Tsuyoshi; Yasuda, Ichiro; Nakashima, Masanori; Doi, Shinpei; Iwashita, Takuji; Iwata, Keisuke; Kato, Tomohiro; Tomita, Eiichi; Moriwaki, Hisataka

doi:10.1007/s00534-012-0508-8

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Metallic stents are more efficacious than plastic stents in unresectable malignant hilar biliary strictures: a randomized controlled trial

Published in Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences • Mar 13, 2012

Authors:

Tsuyoshi Mukai

Ichiro Yasuda

Masanori Nakashima

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Endoscopic biliary stenting is a well-established palliative treatment for unresectable malignant biliary strictures, for which plastic tube stents (PSs) and self-expandable metallic stents (SEMSs) are most commonly used. The efficacy of these stents has been extensively described in dis...

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Medicine

Randomized controlled trial

Stent

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