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Metallic stents in benign biliary strictures: long-term effectiveness and interventional management of stent occlusion
- Source :
- AJR. American journal of roentgenology. 177(4)
- Publication Year :
- 2001
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Abstract
- OBJECTIVE. The objective of our study was to evaluate the long-term effectiveness of metallic stent placement in the treatment of benign biliary strictures and to report our experience with interventional procedures for the management of stent occlusion to achieve secondary patency.CONCLUSION. The clinical course of these patients is compromised by repeated stent occlusions, caused by stone or mucosal hyperplasia. The results of primary stent patency are disappointing with the primary patency rate decreasing from 75% after 12 months to 25% after 36 months. The different interventional procedures used to restore bile flow make an important contribution to the secondary stent patency and provide a satisfactory clinical result in a patient subpopulation in whom stent placement is considered the last resort.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Time Factors
medicine.medical_treatment
Interventional management
Stent occlusion
medicine
Humans
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
cardiovascular diseases
Aged
Retrospective Studies
Aged, 80 and over
Cholestasis
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Mucosal hyperplasia
Clinical course
Stent
Interventional radiology
General Medicine
Middle Aged
equipment and supplies
medicine.disease
Surgery
Prosthesis Failure
Stenosis
surgical procedures, operative
Biliary tract
Metals
Female
Stents
Radiology
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 0361803X
- Volume :
- 177
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- AJR. American journal of roentgenology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....05ba5904c62907798b91b63162c1adda