Palliation of malignant tracheobronchial obstruction by Nd-YAG laser: an update of experience at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.

Photoresection of sympto~atic, unresectable malignant tracheo~ronchiallesions using the neodymium-yttrium aluminum garnet (Nd-YAG) laser through a fiberoptic bronchoscope has previously been established as an accepted method of therapy. The present paper expands on the original study of this modality at the Clev~land Clinic Foundation and reports the results, complications, and caveats from 88 photoresection procedures performed at that institution between September 1983 and June 1986. Nd-YAG laser photoresection produced good to

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