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Retrieving a malpositioned tracheobronchial stent utilizing Amplatz gooseneck snare: a case report
Baljendra S Kapoor1, Greg Rathmann, Shawn Shrawny
1Medical Imaging, Royal University Hospital, Saskatoon SK S7N0W8, Canada. bkapoo@yahoo.com
Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology
|May 7, 2004
Abstract:
Tracheobronchial stents play a major role in the management of tracheobronchial stenoses and/or bronchomalacia. A very few techniques have been described in literature to remove misplaced or malpositioned tracheobronchial stents. This is a case report describing a technique to retrieve a malpositioned stent utilizing Amplatz gooseneck snare.