Results of endoscopic surgery and intralesional steroid therapy for airway compromise due to tracheobronchial Wegener's granulomatosis

Thorax

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 49-52

  Nouraei, S A R ^a   Obholzer, R ^a   Ind, P W ^b   Salama, A D ^b   Pusey, C D ^b   Porter, F ^a   Howard, D J ^a   Sandhu, G S ^a  

^a CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOMYCIN C; STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; BRONCHUS DISEASE; BYPASS SURGERY; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DATA BASE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; GLOTTIS; HEIGHT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERVENTION STUDY; LASER SURGERY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PLOTS AND CURVES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STENT; STEROID THERAPY; TIME; TRACHEA DISEASE; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; INTRALESIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; BRONCHOSCOPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRALESIONAL; LASER THERAPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STEROIDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EID: 38349089570     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.2007.078915     Document Type: Article

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