Current Trends in Preoperative Biliary Stenting in Pancreatic Cancer Patients

BACKGROUND: Sufficient evidence suggests that preoperative biliary stenting is associated with increased complication rates after pancreaticoduodenectomy. METHODS: Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) and linked Medicare claims data (1992–2007) were used to identify patients with pancr...

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Main Authors: Jinkins, Lindsay J., Parmar, Abhishek D., Han, Yimei, Duncan, Casey B., Sheffield, Kristin M., Brown, Kimberly M., Riall, Taylor S.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2013
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3728700/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23889947
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.surg.2013.03.016
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