Nitinol stents: Their value in tracheobronchial obstruction

Clinical Otolaryngology and Allied Sciences

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 233-239

  Colreavy, M P ^a   Keogh, I ^a   Hone, S ^a   Lacy, P D ^a   Gaffney, R J ^a   Walsh, M A ^a  

^a BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Nitinol; Stents; Superelastic alloys; Tracheobronchial obstruction

Indexed keywords

ALLOY; NITINOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; BENIGN TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLICATION; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; METAL IMPLANTATION; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; STENT; SYMPTOM; TRACHEA OBSTRUCTION; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TREE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ALLOYS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BRONCHIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; STENTS; TRACHEAL NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033926341     PISSN: 03077772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2273.2000.00354.x     Document Type: Article

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