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01-07-2016 | Editorial
SEMS for Palliation of Malignant Colonic Obstruction: Why SEMi Available Is Not Good Enough
Author:
Christian P. Selinger
Published in:
Digestive Diseases and Sciences
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Issue 7/2016
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Excerpt
In the past, treatment for acute colonic obstruction was emergency surgery with ostomy. Over the last two decades, the availability of colonic self-expanding metal stents (SEMSs) has provided new treatment options and therapeutic paradigms for malignant obstruction of the colon. In the setting of incurable colorectal cancer (CRC) complicated by colonic obstruction, colonic SEMS placement is the preferred option for palliation of patients not receiving antiangiogenic therapy [
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