A Simplified Insertion Technique for Tracheobronchial Silicone Stents

Interventional Bronchoscopy for Treatment of Tracheal Obstruction Secondary to Benign or Malignant Thyroid Disease

“…Dumon stents were inserted through the rigid bronchoscope using a previously described technique. 16 Noppen-Tygon stents were inserted over the rigid bronchoscope using a plastic pusher tuber. 17 Ultraflex stents were inserted using the flexible insertion system of the manufacturer through the rigid bronchoscope.…”

Screw-thread vs Dumon Endoprosthesis in the Management of Tracheal Stenosis

“…Thereafter, a stenting procedure was performed. If a Dumon stent was chosen, a simplified insertion technique 7 was used: the appropriate stent was folded longitudinally, introduced in a siliconized bronchoscope shaft, and advanced into the stenosis by means of an alligator forceps. Using this procedure, no major problems have been encountered.…”

Application of rapid prototyping and tooling in customised airway management

“…It is noted here that commonly used stent diameters range from 10 to 16 mm (in 2 mm steps) and these stents are seldom used beyond 60 mm in length (Nomori et al, 2000;Abdullah et al, 1998;Sonett et al, 1995;Colt et al, 1992aColt et al, , b, 1994Noppen et al, 1994;Bolliger et al, 1993;Tsang et al, 1992;Dumon, 1990). The customised stents, which are fabricated in 60 mm lengths, can be trimmed to the required lengths when the need arises.…”

“…If left untreated, these patients will experience laboured breathing (dyspnea) (Matsuo and Colt, 2000;Tojo et al, 1996;Cortese and Edell, 1993;Bolliger et al, 1993), insufficient oxygenation of the blood (hypoxemia) (Edell et al, 1993) or even die from suffocation. Apart from cancer of the respiratory system, other causes of tracheobronchial obstructions can be tuberculosis (Nomori et al, 1998(Nomori et al, , 2000Colt et al, 1994), congenital defects (Rimell and Stool, 1995), loss of cartilaginous support (tracheomalacia) (Rossbach et al, 1998;Noppen et al, 1994), compression due to esophageal tumours (Belleguic et al, 1999;Nicholson, 1998;Schmassmann et al, 1997;Colt et al, 1992a) or overgrowth of granulation tissue at the anastomatic site in lung transplantation (Colt et al, 1992b;Gaer et al, 1992;Tsang et al, 1992).…”