Tracheal stenosis treated with self-expanding nitinol stent.

Yanagihara, K; Mizuno, H; Wada, H; Hitomi, S · Ann Thorac Surg · 1997

case_series · Level IV

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Abstract

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.

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