Airway stenting and tracheobronchoplasty improve respiratory symptoms in Mounier-Kuhn syndrome

Chest

Volumn 140, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 867-873

  Odell, David D ^a   Shah, Archan ^a   Gangadharan, Sidhu P ^a   Majid, Adnan ^a   Michaud, Gaetane ^a   Herth, Felix ^b   Ernst, Armin ^c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c ST ELIZABETH'S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHIECTASIS; BRONCHOPLASTY; BRONCHOSCOPY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL MEGATRACHEA; COUGHING; DEATH; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LARYNX EDEMA; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECURRENT INFECTION; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STENT; STENT MIGRATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRACHEITIS; TRACHEOBRONCHITIS; TRACHEOBRONCHOMALACIA; TRACHEOBRONCHOMEGALY; TRACHEOBRONCHOPLASTY; TRACHEOSTOMY; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 80053517129     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.10-2010     Document Type: Article

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