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Fabrication of Small Caliber Stent-grafts Using Electrospinning and Balloon Expandable Bare Metal Stents
Published on: October 26, 2016
[Self-expandable metal stents in the GI tract]
1Servicio de Gastroenterología, Centro Médico Virginia Mason, Seattle, Washington 98101, USA. gasrak@vmmc.org
Abstract:
Self-expandable metal Stents (SEMS), first introduced in the late 90s for the palliation of malignant obstructive jaundice and unresectable esophageal malignancy, are now being variably placed for high risk surgical patients in the setting of malignant gastric outlet and colon obstruction. This review attempts to place SEMS into perspective with respect to surgery and other palliative modalities when treating a variety of GI malignancies and attempts to define the role, if any, of SEMS placement in patients with refractory benign GI stenoses.
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