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Securing tracheal stents: a new and simple method

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2006

Alasdair Mace
Affiliation:
Departments of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, The Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital and Charing Cross Hospital, London, UK.
Gurpreet Sandhu
Affiliation:
Departments of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, The Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital and Charing Cross Hospital, London, UK.
David Howard
Affiliation:
Departments of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, The Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital and Charing Cross Hospital, London, UK.

Abstract

Indwelling silastic stents have been used in the subglottis and upper trachea to manage laryngotracheal abnormalities. A number of methods of fixation have been described. The authors describe a quick and simple method of fixing endoluminal tracheal stents using a single suture.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2005 Royal Society of Medicine Press

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