Examination of expandable metallic stent removed at autopsy

Respirology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 522-524

  Hosokawa, Yoshifumi ^a   Tsujino, Ichiro ^a   Syoda, Toshiaki ^a   Horikoshi, Akira ^a   Sawada, Shigemasa ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Bacterial biofilm formation; Damage to expandable metallic stent; Expandable metallic stent; Lung cancer; Scanning electron microscope

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; BRONCHUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVICE; EXPANDABLE METALLIC STENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG CANCER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STENT;

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; AUTOPSY; BIOFILMS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; STENTS;

EID: 0346888297     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1843.2003.00512.x     Document Type: Article

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