1. Palliative therapy in pancreatic cancer—interventional treatment with stents
- Author
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Alexander Waldthaler, Wiktor Rutkowski, Urban Arnelo, J.-Matthias Löhr, and Roberto Valente
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0301 basic medicine ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Palliative care ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Review Article ,030105 genetics & heredity ,Biliary Stenting ,Percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Pancreatic cancer ,medicine ,Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography ,Interventional treatment ,Hepatology ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,General surgery ,Gastroenterology ,Stent ,medicine.disease ,equipment and supplies ,Palliative Therapy ,surgical procedures, operative ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
Interventional treatment with stents in pancreatic cancer is a topic that developed during recent years and new fields of palliative stent therapy have evolved. The increasing life expectancy of patients with unresectable pancreatic cancer increases the need for clinical and cost effective therapeutic interventions. Current literature, guidelines, practice and evidence were reviewed. Besides the most obvious biliary stenting via endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), pancreatic and gastroduodenal stenting as well as percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography (PTC) and the rapidly growing field of endosonographic stent implantation in the palliative care of patients with pancreatic cancer are being discussed from several points of view in this review.
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- 2019