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Clinical and radiographic predictors of successful therapeutic bronchoscopy for the relief of malignant central airway obstruction

BACKGROUND: Malignant central airway obstruction (CAO) occurs in approximately 20–30% of patients with lung cancer and is associated with debilitating symptoms and poor prognosis. Multimodality therapeutic bronchoscopy can relieve malignant CAO, though carries risk. Evidence to guide clinicians rega...

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Autores principales: Giovacchini, Coral X., Kessler, Edward R., Merrick, Christopher M., Gao, Junheng, Wang, Xiaofei, Wahidi, Momen M., Shofer, Scott L., Cheng, George Z., Mahmood, Kamran
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6873512/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31752776
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12890-019-0987-3