Video-assisted interventional bronchoscopy: The Hong Kong experience

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 444-447

  Yim, A P C ^a   Abdullah, V ^a   Izzat, M B ^a   Van Hasselt, C A ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Interventional bronchoscopy; Intraluminal stenting; Major airway obstruction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; BRONCHUS; BRONCHUS DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION; STENT; TRACHEA; TRACHEA STENOSIS; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRONCHI; BRONCHIAL DISEASES; BRONCHOSCOPY; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STENTS; TRACHEA; TRACHEAL STENOSIS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0032063403     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004649900700     Document Type: Article

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