Experience of expandable metallic stents for central airway obstruction |
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Authors: | Tayama K; Takamori S; Mitsuoka M; Hiraki H; Ohtsuka S; Hayashi A; Aoyama Y; Shirouzu K |
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Institution: | First Department of Surgery, Kurume University School of Medicine, Japan. |
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Abstract: | The aim of this study was to investigate retrospectively the efficacy of
expandable metallic stents (EMSs) for severe respiratory distress in
patients with central airway obstruction. Twenty patients with central
airway obstructions were treated with an EMS. An intraluminal stricture was
present in 15 and an extraluminal stricture in 5 patients. Of the 15
patients with intraluminal stenosis, 11 exhibited symptomatic improvement.
All 11 patients had tumor infiltration occupying less than 50% of the
endoluminal diameter. The other four patients with intraluminal stenosis
had tumor infiltration occupying > 50% of the endoluminal diameter and
demonstrated no improvement. All five patients with extraluminal stenosis
were improved. EMS is useful for an extraluminal stricture in the central
airway and the effect of EMS for intraluminal stenosis is related to the
degree of infiltration and of tumor progression itself.
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