The Y silicone stents are shaped with long tracheal and left main bronchial limbs and a shorter right main bronchial limb. These stents can be used for patients with fixed or dynamic central airway obstruction from benign or malignant disease. More often, these stents are used for patients with extensive tumor involvement in the lower trachea and mainstem bronchi. To our knowledge, their use specifically for unilateral central airway obstruction has not been previously published. In this report, we describe the indication, method, and outcome of Y stent insertion at the level of the secondary left carina separating the left upper and lower lobe bronchi, to restore airway patency of the left lobar bronchi in a patient with primary squamous cell lung cancer.
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