A decade of using intraluminal tracheal/bronchial stents in the management of tracheomalacia and/or bronchomalacia: Is it better than aortopexy?

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 904-907

  Valerie, Evans P ^a   Durrant, Audrey C ^a   Forte, Vito ^a   Wales, Paul ^a   Chait, Peter ^a   Kim, Peter C W ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aortopexy; Intraluminal stent; Tracheomalacia

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AORTA SURGERY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRONCHOMALACIA; BRONCHUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTUBATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRANULATION TISSUE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STENT; STERNOTOMY; TRACHEA; TRACHEOMALACIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AORTA; BALLOON DILATATION; BRONCHIAL DISEASES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIRECT SERVICE COSTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TRACHEAL DISEASES; TRACHEAL STENOSIS;

EID: 20544441456     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2005.03.002     Document Type: Article

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