[Experience of expandable metallic stent for tuberculosis bronchial stenosis].
A 41-year-old female who had suffered from a severe left main bronchial stenosis due to bronchial tuberculosis was treated by implantation of self-expandable metallic stent after dilating the stenosis by balloon catheter. After placing the stent symptoms such as dyspnea were disappeared completely. Four months later, the patient can tolerate to do jogging.
Department of Radiology, Tottori University, School of Medicine.
Y
Y
Fujihara
S
S
Sawada
Y
Y
Tanabe
S
S
Saitou
T
T
Koyama
Y
Y
Katsube
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015607:Stents; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014135:Tracheal Stenosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging