Direct Erosion and Prolapse of Esophageal Stents into the Tracheobronchial Tree Leading to Life-threatening Airway Compromise

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1491-1495

  Katsanos, Konstantinos ^a   Sabharwal, Tarun ^a   Koletsis, Efstratios ^b   Fotiadis, Nicos ^a   Roy Choudhury, Shuvro ^c   Dougenis, Dimitrios ^b   Adam, Andreas ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BARE METAL STENT; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOPROSTHESIS; ENDOSCOPIC BIOPSY; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TREE;

ADULT; BRONCHI; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESPIRATORY ASPIRATION; STENTS; TRACHEA; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 70350503087     PISSN: 10510443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2009.07.039     Document Type: Article

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