Do airway metallic stents for benign lesions confer too costly a benefit?

BMC Pulmonary Medicine

Table 5 Stent deployment location.

	n (stents)	% total stents
Proximal trachea/subglottic	33	40.2
Mid trachea	11	13.4
Distal trachea	12	14.6
Left main bronchus	17	20.7
Right main bronchus	6	7.3
Right broncus intermedius	3	3.7

Proximal trachea = upper third, mid-trachea = middle third, distal trachea = lower third.

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