title: Bronchial catheterization with a TIPS dilator after failure of conventional technique.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  A technique is presented for catheterization of an obstructed bronchus when use of a conventional vascular catheter has failed. In some cases, strictures become too stenotic or blunt for passage of a guidewire, making further intervention impossible. We attempted to negotiate a stricture opening using a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) dilator with a guidewire inside it.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The catheterization technique with a TIPS dilator was successful in nine cases in which use of conventional catheters and guidewires had failed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology and Research Institute of Radiology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, 388-1, Pungnap-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul 138-736, Korea [corrected] jhshin@amc.seoul.kr
authors.forename: Ji Hoon
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Shin
authors.forename: Ho-Young
authors.initials: HY
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Chang Jin
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Yoon
authors.forename: Jin Hyoung
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Jin-Oh
authors.initials: JO
authors.lastname: Lim
authors.forename: Yong Jae
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Heung-Kyu
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Ko
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000402:Airway Obstruction / Q000628:therapy*; D002404:Catheterization / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000150:complications