Self-expandable metallic airway stent insertion employing flexible bronchoscopy: Preliminary results

Chest

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 106-109

  Dasgupta, Asok ^a   Dolmatch, Bart L ^a   Abi Saleh, Wajdy J ^a   Mathur, Praveen N ^b   Mehta, Atul C ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flexible bronchoscope; Self expandable metallic stents

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GRANULATION TISSUE; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NEOPLASM; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; TRACHEA; TRACHEA STENOSIS; TRACHEOMALACIA; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031867769     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.114.1.106     Document Type: Article

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