Preliminary experience with bronchotherapeutic procedures in central airway obstruction

Chang Gung Medical Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 240-249

  Lu, Ming Shian ^b   Liu, Yun Hen ^b   Ko, Po Jen ^a   Wu, Yi Chen ^b   Hsieh, Ming Ju ^b   Liu, Hui Ping ^b   Lin, Pyng Jing ^b  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bronchotherapeutic procedure; Central airway stenosis

Indexed keywords

SILICON;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRONCHODILATATION; BRONCHOSCOPY; BRONCHUS BIOPSY; BRONCHUS FOREIGN BODY; BRONCHUS TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; INJURY; LACERATION; LUNG CANCER; MALE; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; STENOSIS; STENT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; BRACHYTHERAPY; DILATATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STENTS;

EID: 0038051480     PISSN: 02558270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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