Fully covered stents are similar to semi-covered stents with regard to migration in palliative treatment of malignant strictures of the esophagus and gastric cardia: results of a randomized controlled trial.

The data derived with the Ogilvie score and with the dysphagia module (QLQ-OG25) are suggestive of better dysphagia relief for the fcSEMS at 3 months; but these differences did not reach statistical significance (0.081 and 0.067, respectively) (Table 3 ).

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