title: [Endoscopic obstruction treatment].
abstract: The Authors reported the last year personal experience of disobstruction endoscopic therapy; they described therefore an examination of the several techniques proposed from the international literature and in particular dwell upon laser-therapy and airway stents implantation. They emphasized the treatment importance, mostly palliative, but the effective symptomatology improvement due to airway obstruction, bleeding, pain and secretions retenction. They emphasize finally the necessity of a careful and scrupulous patients selection for disobstruction endoscopic therapy.
authors.affiliation: U.O. Chirurgia Toracica, Istituto di Chirurgia Toracica e Cardiovascolare, Università degli Studi di Messina.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Monaco
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mondello
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Barone
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Carditello
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Barresi
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pavia
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Benedetto
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000402:Airway Obstruction / Q000601:surgery*; D004724:Endoscopy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged