Erschienen in:
01.12.2015 | Case Report
Novel Use of Long, Large-Caliber, Fenestrated Stents for Endoscopic Transpapillary Gallbladder Stenting for Therapy of Symptomatic Gallbladder Disease
verfasst von:
Brooke R. Glessing, Rajeev Attam, Stuart K. Amateau, Mustafa Tiewala, Yan Bakman, Hashim Nemat, Martin L. Freeman, Mustafa A. Arain
Erschienen in:
Digestive Diseases and Sciences
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Ausgabe 12/2015
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Excerpt
Symptomatic gallbladder disease (SGBD) has a high prevalence in the general population, and early cholecystectomy is considered definitive therapy for patients with symptomatic cholelithiasis [
1,
2]. Conservative therapy is recommended for those patients in whom surgery is contraindicated or considered high risk [
3‐
5]. …