Selection of patients: Airway Stenting

The purpose of the airway stent placement is to alleviate the airway obstruction caused by stenosis is not suitable for resection and reconstruction. The history try to start in the 19th century, in the airway stents placement and tracheotomy tube and Montgomery tracheal T tube has been widely used in ease good, malignant stenosis. Recently, various endoscopic technology has developed to the management of the benign and malignant lesions involving the central airway: mechanical debridement, laser resection, evaporation, photodynamic therapy, endobronchial close radiation therapy. Tracheal bronchus stent placement has been widely caused by exogenous oppression, pipe cavity disease, the loss of cartilage support, to palliate difficulty breathing. Although surgical correction is always is technically feasible, the clinical status of patients license, carotid stenting noted, had better be in selected cases, provides a reliable replacement, help to improve the quality of life of patients with non-surgical. The experience gained from with intraluminal equipment design of the biliary system, urinary tract, esophagus, blood vessels, airway stents placement of medical equipment bring great benefits. Modern support allows translaryngeal air flow, tracheotomy in most cases, are not required to provide a wet process and keep the airway of speech.

Endoscopic treatment indications some has been reported, but the most common is lung cancer involving respiratory proximal lobar pneumonia hole. In most patients can't surgical resection of the tumor to alleviate and urgent stent placement in the process of radiation and chemotherapy sometimes may be required for, but, in a feasible choice of airway patients may be very important bridge operation. Airway tumor patients benefit from pipe cavity stent placement may be received if the operation is not marked. Airway adjacent other tumors may produce blocking by direct infiltration or external compression, including possible with esophageal cancer tracheoesophageal fistula, thyroid cancer, and other head and neck tumors, and can successfully and cavity palliated combined with stent placement treatments.