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  • Title: [Palliative treatment in neoplastic jaundice. Personal experience].
    Author: Giacobbe G, Pollicino A, Sansotta G, Gioffrè Florio MA, Familiari L.
    Journal: Ann Ital Chir; 1991; 62(6):557-9; discussion 560. PubMed ID: 1726276.
    Abstract:
    The palliative treatment of biliary duct neoplastic obstruction represents a problem of great importance and frequently can't leave out of consideration patients clinical conditions and phase of neoplastic disease. Authors, in this article refers their experience on palliative treatment of neoplastic jaundice and indications for surgical or endoscopic treatment. Their experience shows that surgical palliation must be performed in patients with preoperative instrumental investigations without "surgical risk", this vouches for a better quality of life than endoscopic procedure performed with diffuse neoplastic disease and in patients with surgical risk.
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