Percutaneous transhepatic vs. endoscopic retrograde biliary drainage for suspected malignant hilar obstruction: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

BACKGROUND: The optimal approach to the drainage of malignant obstruction at the liver hilum remains uncertain. We aim to compare percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD) to endoscopic retrograde cholangiography (ERC) as the first intervention in patients with cholestasis due to suspected m...

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Autores principales: Al-Kawas, Firas, Aslanian, Harry, Baillie, John, Banovac, Filip, Buscaglia, Jonathan M., Buxbaum, James, Chak, Amitabh, Chong, Bradford, Coté, Gregory A., Draganov, Peter V., Dua, Kulwinder, Durkalski, Valerie, Elmunzer, B. Joseph, Foster, Lydia D., Gardner, Timothy B., Geller, Brian S., Jamidar, Priya, Jamil, Laith H., Keswani, Rajesh N., Khashab, Mouen A., Lang, Gabriel D., Law, Ryan, Lichtenstein, David, Lo, Simon K., McCarthy, Sean, Melo, Silvio, Mullady, Daniel, Nieto, Jose, Bayne Selby, J., Singh, Vikesh K., Spitzer, Rebecca L., Strife, Brian, Tarnaksy, Paul, Taylor, Jason R., Tokar, Jeffrey, Wang, Andrew Y., Williams, April, Willingham, Field, Yachimski, Patrick
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Study Protocol
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5813390/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29444707
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-018-2473-2

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