title: Use of a metallic stent for relief of symptoms caused by superior vena caval obstruction in a patient with advanced cancer: a case report.
abstract: This report describes the insertion of a metallic stent in the superior vena cava to relieve the symptoms of malignant superior vena caval obstruction in a 75-year-old woman with far-advanced lung cancer in whom other methods of symptom control had been ineffective. Her symptoms were quickly relieved by insertion of the stent. She died 1 month following the procedure, without recurrence of the symptoms. The technical aspects of the procedure and the issues affecting the clinical decision-making process in this case are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Westmead Hospital, New South Wales, Australia.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Young
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Glare
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D008670:Metals; D015607:Stents; D013479:Superior Vena Cava Syndrome / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*
chemical_list: D008670:Metals