Alleviation of severe compressive symptoms in a patient with advanced lung carcinoma using tracheal and superior vena cava stents

Journal of Palliative Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 24-29

  Morales, Jose Pablo ^a   Sabharwal, Tarun ^a   Man Harun, Shahrina ^a   Adam, Andreas ^a  

^a GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER INFILTRATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; HUMAN; INOPERABLE CANCER; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LUNG CARCINOMA; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; STENT; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; TRACHEA;

AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; STENTS; SUPERIOR VENA CAVA SYNDROME; TRACHEA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENA CAVA, SUPERIOR;

EID: 33846932572     PISSN: 10966218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2006.0175     Document Type: Article

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