A prospective trial of a new self-expanding plastic stent for malignant esophageal obstruction

Polyflex self-expanding, removable plastic stents: assessment of treatment efficacy and safety in a variety of benign and malignant conditions of the esophagus

“…Both of these patients had acute perforations. Although our reintervention rate was higher than that of other series, which describe rates of 21% to 35% [25][26][27], the majority of the patients in these other series had malignant indications for stent placement, whereas the majority of our patients had benign indications.…”

“…The current series demonstrated improvement of dysphagia for 86% of patients with malignant strictures, a success rate that has been documented in previous reports [25,26,33]. The use of SEPS under these circumstances may allow for the avoidance of more invasive procedures such as the placement of gastrostomy and jejunostomy tubes in patients with severe dysphagia.…”

Prospective evaluation of a new self-expanding plastic stent for inoperable esophageal strictures

“…Bethge and Vakil [1] reported excellent results using the Polyflex stent in eight patients with malignant esophageal obstruction. Stents were successfully placed in all the patients, and all demonstrated significant dysphagia improvement.…”

“…There is only one report in literature reporting the use of the new self-expanding Polyflex stent [1]. We report our experience with this new self-expanding plastic stent, the cost of which is half that of metal stents.…”

Self-expanding Polyflex plastic stents in esophageal disease: various indications, complications, and outcomes

“…Bethge et al [2] described a series of SEPS placements in eight patients with esophageal obstruction and found only one minor complication. Dormann et al [4] reported a larger study of 33 patients exclusively with malignant esophageal strictures.…”