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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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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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. |
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