Mediastinal migration of self-expanding bronchial stents in the management of malignant bronchoesophageal fistula

Chest

Volumn 135, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1353-1355

  Alazemi, Saleh ^a   Chatterji, Sumit ^b   Ernst, Armin ^a   Berkowitz, David ^a   Michaud, Gaetane ^a   Majid, Adnan ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Respiratory Medicine Directorate (Eastern Deanery)   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bronchoesophageal fistula; Malignant airway obstruction; Polyflex stent; Stent complications; Stent migration; Tracheoesophageal fistula

Indexed keywords

SILICONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST ADENOCARCINOMA; BRONCHIAL STENT; BRONCHOSCOPY; BRONCHUS; CANCER INVASION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; ESOPHAGOBRONCHIAL FISTULA; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; FEMALE; HEMATOTHORAX; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MEDIASTINUM; MIGRATION; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; STOMACH TUBE; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 65949112683     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.08-2066     Document Type: Article

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