Treatment of Complex Airway Lesions After Lung Transplantation With Self-Expandable Nitinol Stents: Early Experience

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1279-1280

  Anile, M ^a   Venuta, F ^a   Diso, D ^b   Liparulo, V ^a   Ricella, C ^a   De Giacomo, T ^a   Pugliese, F ^a   Rolla, M ^a   Quattrucci, S ^a   Pecoraro, Y ^a   Rendina, E A ^a   Coloni, G F ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITINOL; SILICONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BRONCHIECTASIS; BRONCHOMALACIA; BRONCHUS STENOSIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DILATATION; EMPHYSEMA; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRANULATION TISSUE; HUMAN; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MORBIDITY; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SELECTION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; STENT; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ALLOYS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DILATATION; EMPHYSEMA; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; SILICONES; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77952558033     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2010.03.092     Document Type: Article

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