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[Clinical experiences with the Gianturco-Z stent in endotracheal and -bronchial stenoses]
K Rauber1, B Weimar, M Hofmann
1Röntgenabteilung Innere Medizin, Kliniken Justus-Liebig-Universität, Giessen.
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|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
We inserted Gianturco-Z stents in 17 patients with tracheobronchial stenoses on 18 occasions. Three patients had benign, all others malignant stenoses due to compression of the tracheobronchial tree by metastasising malignancies. In all cases the stents could be easily positioned and the patients experienced relief of their severe dyspnea. In one case there was fatigue breakage of the stent. The patient was therefore given a silicone tracheal stent.