Self-Expanding Metal Stents for Palliation of Malignant Gastric Outlet Obstruction

S. Truong; V. Bohndorf; H. Geller; V. Schumpèlick; R. W. Günther

doi:10.1055/s-2007-1010515

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Endoscopy 1992; 24(5): 433-435
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-1010515

Self-Expanding Metal Stents for Palliation of Malignant Gastric Outlet Obstruction

S. Truong¹ , V. Bohndorf² , H. Geller¹ , V. Schumpèlick¹ , R. W. Günther²

¹Department of Surgery, University of Aachen, Germany
²Department of Radiology, University of Aachen, Germany

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17 March 2008 (online)

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Abstract

Treatment of inoperable gastric outlet obstruction caused by tumor compression is difficult and often unsatisfactory. The case of a 56-year-old female patient in whom self-expanding stents were implanted, successfully enabling oral nutrition, is reported.