DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
Intervention with stent coated with medication
Self-expandable metallic stent
A self-expandable metallic stent (or SEMS) is a metallic tube, or stent, used in order to hold open a structure in the gastrointestinal tract in order to allow the passage of food, chyme, stool, or other secretions required for digestion. SEMS are inserted by endoscopy, wherein a fibre optic camera is inserted either through the mouth or retrograde through the colon, in order to reach an area of narrowing. As such, it is termed an endoprosthesis. SEMS can also be inserted using fluoroscopy where an X-ray image is used to guide insertion, or used as an adjunct to endoscopy...
Intervention with stent coated with medication - List of case studies
- Metastatic, Non Small Cell Lung Cancer
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67-year-old with multiple co morbities: Heart, renal, vascular, hypertensive. His biopsy ... scans, found two coronary arteries diseased. Underwent intervention with stent coated with medication on the far end of the right ...
- Treatments
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W | X | # #6 Bivona TTS 3 infiltrations with jointex starter 5-fluoruracil 60Gy radiation A ABO ... treatment Hormonal treatments Hormone intervention Hormone therapy Hormonotherapy Hyaluronic acid ...
- Metastatic, Non Small Cell Lung Cancer – further opinion
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67-year-old with multiple co morbities: Heart, renal, vascular, hypertensive. His biopsy ... scans, found two coronary arteries diseased. Underwent intervention with stent coated with medication on the far end of the right ...
- Metastatic non small cell lung Cancer
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CT guided biopsy from right lung mass was consistent with non small cell carcinoma with extensive necrosis. SPECT bone scan showed ... scans, found two coronary arteries diseased. Underwent intervention with stent coated with medication on the far end of the right ...