Plastic Stents for Espohageal Disease Don’t Work

Self-expanding plastic stents used to treat benign esophageal disease do not result in long-term alleviation of symptoms, researchers here said. What’s more, the devices migrated from their initial placement more than 60% of the time, according to Todd Baron, M.D., and colleagues at the Mayo Clinic reported in the January issue of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. The [...]