Recent Advances in Gastrointestinal Stent Development

Endoscopic stenting is increasingly being used in the management of gastrointestinal luminal obstruction, and has become the current treatment of choice for the palliation of blockage caused by malignant or benign growths. A variety of stents have been developed to enhance the efficacy of the proced...

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Main Authors: Park, Jin-Seok, Jeong, Seok, Lee, Don Haeng
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: The Korean Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4461664/
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spelling pubmed-44616642015-06-10 Recent Advances in Gastrointestinal Stent Development Park, Jin-Seok Jeong, Seok Lee, Don Haeng Focused Review Series: Updates on Gastrointestinal and Pancreaticobiliary Stents Endoscopic stenting is increasingly being used in the management of gastrointestinal luminal obstruction, and has become the current treatment of choice for the palliation of blockage caused by malignant or benign growths. A variety of stents have been developed to enhance the efficacy of the procedure, and improvements are ongoing. In this article, we review the history of, and recent advances in, gastrointestinal stenting. We describe the rationale behind the design as well as the resulting outcome for each stent type. The Korean Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 2015-05 2015-05-29 /pmc/articles/PMC4461664/ /pubmed/26064820 http://dx.doi.org/10.5946/ce.2015.48.3.209 Text en Copyright © 2015 Korean Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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author Park, Jin-Seok
Jeong, Seok
Lee, Don Haeng
spellingShingle Park, Jin-Seok
Jeong, Seok
Lee, Don Haeng
Recent Advances in Gastrointestinal Stent Development
author_facet Park, Jin-Seok
Jeong, Seok
Lee, Don Haeng
author_sort Park, Jin-Seok
title Recent Advances in Gastrointestinal Stent Development
title_short Recent Advances in Gastrointestinal Stent Development
title_full Recent Advances in Gastrointestinal Stent Development
title_fullStr Recent Advances in Gastrointestinal Stent Development
title_full_unstemmed Recent Advances in Gastrointestinal Stent Development
title_sort recent advances in gastrointestinal stent development
description Endoscopic stenting is increasingly being used in the management of gastrointestinal luminal obstruction, and has become the current treatment of choice for the palliation of blockage caused by malignant or benign growths. A variety of stents have been developed to enhance the efficacy of the procedure, and improvements are ongoing. In this article, we review the history of, and recent advances in, gastrointestinal stenting. We describe the rationale behind the design as well as the resulting outcome for each stent type.
publisher The Korean Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
publishDate 2015
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4461664/
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