Percutaneous placement of a self-expandable stent for treatment of a malignant pulmonary artery stenosis.
Venous stent placement is widely accepted as the treatment of stenoses caused by external tumour compression to reduced clinical sequelae. We report percutaneous stent placement into a severely obstructed right pulmonary artery in a 73-year-old female patient. The underlying disease was a medistinal tumour mass of unknown aetiology. Pulmonary perfusion was successfully but temporarily restored by the intervention.
Department of Radiology, University of Kiel, Germany.
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Müller-Hülsbeck
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Bewig
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Schwarzenberg
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Heller
D000368:Aged; D015901:Angiography, Digital Subtraction; D001157:Arterial Occlusive Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D015641:Radiography, Interventional / Q000379:methods*; D015607:Stents