Medium-term follow-up after deployment of ultraflex expandable metallic stents to manage endobronchial pathology

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1898-1902

  Madden, Brendan P ^a   Park, John E S ^a   Sheth, Abhijat ^a  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

15

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA ARCH INTERRUPTION; ARTICLE; BRACHIOCEPHALIC TRUNK; BRONCHUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOBRONCHIAL STENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GOITER; GRANULATION TISSUE; HALITOSIS; HUMAN; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG TUMOR; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METAL IMPLANTATION; MYELOMA; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; STENT; THYMOMA; TRACHEA; TRACHEA COMPRESSION; TRACHEOMALACIA; TREATMENT INDICATION; YAG LASER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; BRONCHOSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STENTS; TRACHEAL DISEASES;

EID: 9344237660     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2004.05.062     Document Type: Article

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