Large endotracheal tumor obstructing the central airway The role of Interventional Pulmonology

1	Interventional Pulmonology Unit, 1st Respiratory Medicine Department, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
2	Respiratory Department of University Hospital of Heraklion Crete, Greece
3	Histopathology Department, “Sotiria General Hospital, Athens, Greece

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Grigoris K. Stratakos

Interventional Pulmonology Unit, 1st Respiratory Medicine Department, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Pneumon 2017;30(2):102–104

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interventional pulmonology

malignant central airways obstruction

adenoid cystic carcinoma of the trachea

tumor debulking

rigid bronchoscopy

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