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Fracture of Memotherm metallic stents in the biliary tract
1X-Ray Department, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Glossop Road, Sheffield S10 2JF, UK.
Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology
|February 5, 2000
Abstract:
In a series of 66 patients who had palliation of malignant obstructive jaundice by percutaneous placement of Memotherm expanding metal stents, we report four cases of stent fracture. This has not been reported previously.