Self-Expandable Metal Stents for Persisting Esophageal Variceal Bleeding after Band Ligation or Injection-Therapy: A Retrospective Study

BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS: Despite a pronounced reduction of lethality rates due to upper gastrointestinal bleeding, esophageal variceal bleeding remains a challenge for the endoscopist and still accounts for a mortality rate of up to 40% within the first 6 weeks. A relevant proportion of patients w...

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Publié dans:PLoS One
Auteurs principaux: Müller, Martin, Seufferlein, Thomas, Perkhofer, Lukas, Wagner, Martin, Kleger, Alexander
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: Public Library of Science 2015
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4476696/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26098635
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0126525
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