The role of airway stent placement in the management of tracheobronchial stenosis caused by inoperable advanced lung cancer

Surgery Today

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 315-320

  Furukawa, Kinya ^a   Ishida, Junzo ^a   Yamaguchi, Gaku ^a   Usuda, Jitsuo ^a   Tsutsui, Hidemitsu ^a   Saito, Makoto ^a   Konaka, Chimori ^a   Kato, Harubumi ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adjuvant therapy; Airway stenosis; Airway stenting; Lung cancer; Tracheobronchial stent

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS STENOSIS; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPNEA; ENDOPROSTHESIS LOOSENING; FEMALE; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PULMONARY ASPIRATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESTENOSIS; STENT; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TERMINAL DISEASE; TRACHEA STENOSIS; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL STENTING; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BRONCHUS DISEASE; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; BRONCHIAL DISEASES; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; STENTS; SURVIVAL RATE; TRACHEAL STENOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953932119     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-008-4058-2     Document Type: Article

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