Includes bibliographical references and index.

Esophageal stents in benign disease / Sanjay R. Hegde and Eric Goldberg -- Esophageal stents in preoperative esophageal cancer patients / Kathryn R. Byrne, John C. Fang, and Douglas G. Adler -- Esophageal stents in patients with malignant dysphagia due to unresectable disease / Kulwinder S. Dua -- Complications of esophageal stents and their management / Gulshan Parasher and Jess D. Schwartz -- Metal biliary stents in benign pancreaticobiliary disease / Michelle A. Anderson and Richard S. Kwon -- Metal biliary stents in patients with potentially resectable pancreaticobiliary malignancy / Tyler M. Berzin, Ram Chuttani, and Douglas K. Pleskow -- Metal biliary stents in patients with unresectable pancreaticobiliary malignancy / Waqar Qureshi -- Metal biliary stent complications and their management / Jessica I. Chan and Douglas G. Adler -- Gastroduodenal stents / Christopher J. DiMaio -- Gastroduodenal stents versus surgery for malignant gastric outlet obstruction / Ali A. Siddiqui -- Colonic stents as a bridge to surgery in patients with colonic obstruction / Andres Gelrud -- Colonic stents as palliative therapy in patients with malignant large bowel obstruction / Sergey V. Kantsevoy -- Complications of colonic stenting and their management / Sonia Gosain, Kevin Halsey, and Peter Darwin -- The future of self-expanding stents in gastrointestinal endoscopy / Jeffrey L. Tokar.

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