RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The expandable metal stent for tracheal obstruction.
JF Archives of Disease in Childhood
JO Arch Dis Child
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
SP 435
OP 436
DO 10.1136/adc.72.5.435
VO 72
IS 5
A1 A E Boothroyd
A1 R Edwards
A1 A J Petros
A1 R Franks
YR 1995
UL http://adc.bmj.com/content/72/5/435.abstract
AB A 10 month old boy with stridor persisting from birth was found to have tracheal narrowing secondary to myofibromatosis of the tracheal wall. An expandable metal stent was positioned across the tracheal stenosis with immediate clinical improvement. There were no complications relating to stent insertion. The child remained clinically asymptomatic and repeat bronchoscopy at nine months' follow up showed that the stent had become completely endothelialised with no evidence of granuloma formation.