Use of expandable metal stents in the treatment of bronchial obstruction.
Open Access
- 1 August 1989
- Vol. 44 (8) , 680-681
- https://doi.org/10.1136/thx.44.8.680
Abstract
An expandable metal stent has been used to treat bronchial collapse due to polychondritis in one patient and extrinsic bronchial compression secondary to bronchogenic tumour in another.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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