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Stents in Gastrointestinal Cancer

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Insertion of self-expanding metallic stents is now a well-established method to treat obstructions of the biliary tract (Rossi et al. 1994) and the oesophagus (Song et al. 1994; Adam et al. 1997). Recently their use has been extended to gastroduodenal outlet obstruction and treatment of acute ileus in colorectal obstruction. Patients with malignant gastroduodenal as well as colorectal obstruction are often elderly, frail and dehydrated with electrolyte imbalance and, therefore, are poor surgical candidates; self-expanding stents offer an attractive way of palliative or preoperative treatment which rapidly relieves the symptoms of retention and improves the clinical condition.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Kantonsspital Winterthur, Brauerstrasse 15, Postfach 834, 8401, Winterthur, Switzerland

    C. L. Zollikofer MD & E. Schoch MD

  2. Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Gastroenterology, Kantonsspital Winterthur, Brauerstrasse 15, Postfach 834, 8401, Winterthur, Switzerland

    Robert Jost MD

  3. Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Surgery, Kantonsspital Winterthur, Brauerstrasse 15, Postfach 834, 8401, Winterthur, Switzerland

    M. Decurtins MD

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Zollikofer, C.L., Jost, R., Schoch, E., Decurtins, M. (2004). Stents in Gastrointestinal Cancer. In: Adam, A., Dondelinger, R.F., Mueller, P.R. (eds) Interventional Radiology in Cancer. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18668-4_3

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