Self-Expandable Stents in the Gastrointestinal Tract

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Kozarek, Richard (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Baron, Todd (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Song, Ho-Young (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Interventional radiology.; Gastroenterology.; Rectum > Surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Interventional Radiology.; Colorectal Surgery.

Self-expandable stents were initially placed for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases but now play an integral role in the relief of benign and malignant obstruction of the gastrointestinal tract and biliary system.  Self-Expandable Stents in the Gastrointestinal Tract will familiarize the reade...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• History of GI Stenting: Rigid Prostheses in the Esophagus
• History of Bile Duct Stenting: Rigid Prostheses
• History of Self-Expandable Metal and Self-Expandable Plastic Stent Development
• Current Designs of Self-Expanding Stents
• Esophageal Prostheses
• Biliary Self-Expandable Metal Stents
• Enteric Prostheses
• Colonic Prostheses
• Esophageal Stents: Indications and Placement Techniques
• Biliary and Pancreatic Stents: Indications and Placement Techniques
• Enteric Stents: Indications and Placement Techniques
• Colonic Self-Expandable Metal Stents: Indications and Placement Techniques
• Esophageal Stents: Malignancy
• Esophageal Stents: Benign
• Self-Expanding Metallic Stents for Malignant Hilar Biliary Obstruction
• Biliary Malignancy: Distal
• Benign Biliary Diseases
• Enteral Stents
• Colonic Stents
• Self-Expandable Metal Stents: Transluminal Stents.