The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of four interventional pulmonology techniques for the treatment of malignant central airway stricture. The four techniques are: * cryotherapy * argon plasma coagulation * stent * snare
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
200
use cryotherapy to delete soft neoplasm tissue in the airway
use argon plasma coagulation to delete hard neoplasm tissue in the airway
use stent placement to open the airway compressed by out neoplasm
Tangdu Hospital
Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
percentage of the cases that got Ⅰand Ⅱlevel remission
Time frame: the next day after the treatment
the values of dyspnea index
Time frame: the next day after the treatment
Karnofsky Physical scales
Time frame: the next day after the treatment
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use snare to delete polypoid neoplasm tissue in the airway