Early endoscopic treatment of acute inflammatory airway lesions improves the outcome of postintubation airway stenosis

Laryngoscope

Volumn 116, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1417-1421

  Nouraei, S A Reza ^a,b   Singh, Arvind ^b   Patel, Anil ^a   Ferguson, Catriona ^a   Howard, David J ^a   Sandhu, Guri S ^a,b  

^a ROYAL NATIONAL THROAT NOSE AND EAR HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Airway stenosis; Intralesional steroid; Intubation injury

Indexed keywords

MITOMYCIN C; STEROID;

ADULT; BALLOON DILATATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOG RANK TEST; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFLAMMATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT STENOSIS; REVIEW; STENOSIS; STUDENT T TEST; TRACHEA INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; BALLOON DILATATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INJECTIONS, INTRALESIONAL; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPY; LASER SURGERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STEROIDS; TRACHEA;

EID: 33746837706     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlg.0000225377.33945.14     Document Type: Review

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