Interventional bronchoscopy in the treatment of tracheal obstruction secondary to advanced thyroid cancer

Background: Surgery is the choice treatment for symptomatic tracheal obstruction due to malignant thyroid disease. Few additional therapeutic alternatives are available: radiotherapy (RT), chemotherapy (CT) or radioiodine therapy (131I). Only few studies on interventional bronchoscopy (IB) as well as alternative or palliative procedures have been reported so far. This study is a retrospective report of results of IB performed in patients with...