PERCUTANEOUS PLACEMENT OF A SELF-EXPANDABLE STENT FOR TREATMENT OF A MALIGNANT PULMONARY-ARTERY STENOSIS

Authors
MULLERHULSBECK S BEWIG B SCHWARZENBERG H HELLER M
Citation
S. Mullerhulsbeck et al., PERCUTANEOUS PLACEMENT OF A SELF-EXPANDABLE STENT FOR TREATMENT OF A MALIGNANT PULMONARY-ARTERY STENOSIS, British journal of radiology, 71(847), 1998, pp. 785-787
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Radiology,Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Journal title
British journal of radiology
ISSN journal
00071285 → ACNP
Volume
71
Issue
847
Year of publication
1998
Pages
785 - 787
Database
ISI
SICI code
Abstract
Venous stent placement is widely accepted as the treatment of stenoses caused by external tumour compression to reduced clinical sequelae. W e report percutaneous stent placement into a severely obstructed right pulmonary artery in a 73-year-old female patient. The underlying dise ase was a medistinal tumour mass of unknown aetiology. Pulmonary perfu sion was successfully but temporarily restored by the intervention.