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Stent Placement for Relief of Large Bowel Obstruction

This report compared the benefits of 2 types of surgical palliation for patients with malignant colorectal cancer: insertion of a stent (n = 30) or a palliative surgical procedure (n =14). Patients ...
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Preliminary Study of Enteroscopy-guided, Self-expandable Metal Stent Placement for Malignant Small Bowel Obstruction

Background and Aims: Technical limitations of conventional endoscopes and delivery systems frequently hamper palliative endoscopic placement of self-expandable metal stents for malignant small bowel ...
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Safety of self-expandable metal stents (SEMS) or emergency surgery for acute malignant colonic obstruction in patients treated with bevacizumab.

Primary tumor location as a prognostic implication in patients undergoing resection for colorectal liver metastasis: A propensity score-matched analysis. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2018 ...
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Long-term follow-up of treatment of acute malignant colorectal obstruction with self-expanding metallic stent as a preoperative brigde to surgery.

Factors affecting time to adjuvant chemotherapy in stage III colon cancer patients. Background: Ten to thirty percent of colonic cancers are diagnosed at acute colic obstruction stage. Self- expanding ...
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Survival Rates of Bowel Obstruction Surgery

• The speed with which surgical intervention is initiated significantly impacts survival rates; delays longer than 72 hours correlate with a higher risk of mortality. • While bowel obstruction surgery ...