Do Expandable Metallic Airway Stents Have a Role in the Management of Patients With Benign Tracheobronchial Disease?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 274-278

  Madden, Brendan P ^a   Loke, Tuck Kay ^a   Sheth, Abhijat C ^a  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; METAL;

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; AIRWAY STENT; ANESTHESIA; ANEURYSM; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA ARCH INTERRUPTION; ARTICLE; BRACHIOCEPHALIC ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRONCHOPLEURAL FISTULA; BRONCHOSCOPY; BRONCHUS; BRONCHUS DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE REMOVAL; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; FOLLOW UP; GOITER; GRANULATION TISSUE; HALITOSIS; HUMAN; LOBECTOMY; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; NEODYMIUM LASER; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RUPTURE; STENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRACHEA DISEASE; TRACHEA RUPTURE; TRACHEA STENOSIS; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL DISEASE; TRACHEOMALACIA; TRACHEOSTOMY; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BRONCHI; BRONCHIAL DISEASES; BRONCHIAL FISTULA; BRONCHOSCOPY; COMORBIDITY; DEVICE REMOVAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; GOITER, NODULAR; GRANULATION TISSUE; HALITOSIS; HUMANS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL DISEASES; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RESPIRATORY TRACT FISTULA; RUPTURE; STENTS; TRACHEAL DISEASES; TRACHEAL STENOSIS; TRACHEOSTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 33745186202     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.02.028     Document Type: Article

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