Treatment of benign and malignant tracheobronchial obstruction with metal wire stents: Experience with a balloon-expandable and a self-expandable stent type

CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 339-343

  Rieger, Johannes ^a   Hautmann, Hubert ^a   Linsenmaier, Ulrich ^a   Weber, Cristoph ^a   Treitl, Markus ^a   Huber, Rudolf Maria ^a   Pfeifer, Klaus Jürgen ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Intervention; Stenosis; Stents; Tracheobronchial tree

Indexed keywords

TANTALUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BRONCHOSCOPY; BRONCHUS STENOSIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; GRANULATION TISSUE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; STENT; TRACHEA STENOSIS; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL STENOSIS; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TREE; TRACHEOMALACIA;

EID: 3843133909     PISSN: 01741551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00270-003-2686-x     Document Type: Article

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