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posted on 2016-08-29, 00:00 authored by Mark A. Sloan, William E. Hauter, Paul A. Sloan, John A. HafnerSelf-expandable metal esophageal stents (SEMS) are used to provide symptomatic relief of dysphagia,
particularly in cancer patients. The advancement of covered SEMS stents has decreased the rate of tumor in-growth
complications, unfortunately with the cost of increased migration rates. Complications involving both the airway and
gastrointestinal tract have been observed and studied. To date there are no cases reported involving complete
migration into the upper airway. We report the case of an elderly male presenting emergently with a severe upper
airway obstruction caused by a self-expandable metal stent that migrated proximally into the pharynx. Airway
obstruction due to SEMS migration represents a rare but possible cause of respiratory distress in a patient with an
esophageal stent.
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This is a copy of an article published in the Open Access Emergency Medicine. © 2013 Sloan MA, et al. http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2165-7548.1000197Publisher
Dove Medical PressLanguage
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