Endoscopy 1992; 24(5): 433-435
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-1010515
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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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Publikationsdatum:
17. März 2008 (online)

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.