Tracheal stenosis treated with self-expanding nitinol stent.
A self-expanding nitinol stent was used in 2 patients with inoperable tracheal stenosis due to invasive malignant tumor of the trachea. One was a 70-year-old man with recurrent tumor from adenocarcinoma of the left lung, and the other was a 63-year-old man with recurrent tumor in mediastinal lymph nodes from esophageal cancer. The self-expanding nitinol stent is very useful and effective in inoperable tracheal stenosis due to intraluminal tumor invasion.
Yanagihara
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K
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Chest Disease Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan.
Mizuno
H
H
Wada
H
H
Hitomi
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S
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000150:complications / Q000556:secondary; D000368:Aged; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000150:complications; D015607:Stents; D014134:Tracheal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D014135:Tracheal Stenosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*