Stenting for airway obstruction in the carinal region

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1925-1929

  Shiraishi, Takeshi ^a,b   Kawahara, Katsunobu ^a   Shirakusa, Takayuki ^a   Inada, Kazuo ^a   Okabayashi, Kan ^a   Iwasaki, Akinori ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS STENOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PHONATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; STENT; SURVIVAL RATE; T TUBE; TRACHEA STENOSIS; TRACHEOSTOMY;

BRONCHIAL DISEASES; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; STENTS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TRACHEAL STENOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032460088     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(98)01059-5     Document Type: Article

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