Percutaneous placement of a self-expandable stent for treatment of a malignant pulmonary artery stenosis.

Abstract

Venous stent placement is widely accepted as the treatment of stenoses caused by external tumour compression to reduced clinical sequelae. We report percutaneous stent placement into a severely obstructed right pulmonary artery in a 73-year-old female patient. The underlying disease was a medistinal tumour mass of unknown aetiology. Pulmonary perfusion was successfully but temporarily restored by the intervention.