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Lung Cancer • Radiation Oncology • Thoracic Malignancies • Medical Oncology • Pulmonology • Interventional Pulmonology
Do you consider the duration of lung/lobar atelectasis in your decision making while offering airway stents for malignant central airway obstruction?
Are patients with long standing malignant central airway obstruction poor candidates for central airway stents? What is considered to be an acceptable time frame?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
Yes, always.
We review old imaging to determine when there is a post obstructive pneumonia or collapsed lobe/lung secondary to endobronchial obstruction (extrinsic or intrinsic).
The old teaching was that, if a lobe is down for more than two months, it is unlikely to be salvaged, even after the en...
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