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Indications for airway stents

Indications for airway stents
Malignant disease
  • Airway obstruction from extrinsic compression
  • Endobronchial tumor with residual obstruction after bronchoscopic resection
  • Mixed endobronchial and extrinsic tumor
  • Loss of cartilage support from tumor destruction
  • Malignant tracheoesphageal fistula
Benign disease
  • Simple or complex strictures not amenable to surgical treatment
  • Strictures that have failed attempts at bronchoscopic dilation or resection
  • Strictures in patients who are poor candidates for surgery
  • Strictures following lung transplant surgery
  • Expiratory airway complex (eg, malacia or excessive airway dynamic collapse; stents placed as a therapeutic trial or for definitive therapy)
  • Benign tracheoesophageal fistula
Adapted from: Folch E, Keyes C. Airway stents. Ann Cardiothorac Surg 2018; 7:273.
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