A Biliary Endoprosthesis Functioning After Six Years

The functional lifetime for biliary endoprostheses has typically been 7 months. When combined with sphincterotomy for common bile duct stones, it affords an alternative to surgery in high risk patients. Biliary endoprostheses often require replacement in these patients, though recent reports suggest...

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Autores principales: Plumer, Alan, Iswara, K., Siegel, Jerome H.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1994
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2362466/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18493351
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/DTE.1.113
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author Plumer, Alan
Iswara, K.
Siegel, Jerome H.
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Iswara, K.
Siegel, Jerome H.
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description The functional lifetime for biliary endoprostheses has typically been 7 months. When combined with sphincterotomy for common bile duct stones, it affords an alternative to surgery in high risk patients. Biliary endoprostheses often require replacement in these patients, though recent reports suggest they are functioning longer. We present an 85-year-old asymptomatic woman with a 6-year-old biliary endoprosthesis, believed to be the longest functioning stent reported in the literature.
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spelling pubmed-23624662008-05-20 A Biliary Endoprosthesis Functioning After Six Years Plumer, Alan Iswara, K. Siegel, Jerome H. Diagn Ther Endosc Research Article The functional lifetime for biliary endoprostheses has typically been 7 months. When combined with sphincterotomy for common bile duct stones, it affords an alternative to surgery in high risk patients. Biliary endoprostheses often require replacement in these patients, though recent reports suggest they are functioning longer. We present an 85-year-old asymptomatic woman with a 6-year-old biliary endoprosthesis, believed to be the longest functioning stent reported in the literature. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1994 /pmc/articles/PMC2362466/ /pubmed/18493351 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/DTE.1.113 Text en Copyright © 1994 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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A Biliary Endoprosthesis Functioning After Six Years
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title_full A Biliary Endoprosthesis Functioning After Six Years
title_fullStr A Biliary Endoprosthesis Functioning After Six Years
title_full_unstemmed A Biliary Endoprosthesis Functioning After Six Years
title_short A Biliary Endoprosthesis Functioning After Six Years
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2362466/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18493351
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/DTE.1.113
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