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A Prospective, Randomized Multicenter Trial Comparing DoubleLayer and Polyethylene Stents for Malignant Distal Common Bile Duct Strictures

DOI

65

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References

2003

Year

Andrea Tringali, Massimiliano Mutignani, Valentina Perri, Giuseppe Zuccalà, Livio Cipolletta, M.A. Bianco, G. Rotondano, M. Philipper, B. Schumacher, Horst Neuhaus,
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Abstract

These results show that DoubleLayer stents have a longer patency period than PE stents. Patients who received PE stents had a higher risk of stent occlusion (relative risk 3.05; 95 % CI, 1.57 - 5.89) before death than DLS patients.