Modification of a Mucosal-Sparing Technique Using Electrocautery and Balloon Dilatation in the Endoscopic Management of Web-Like Benign Airway Stenosis
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Objectives We provide a description of a novel modification of a mucosal-sparing technique using electrocautery and balloon dilatation in the endoscopic management of web-like benign airway stenosis. Study Design We conducted a retrospective chart review. Setting We studied an outpatient bronchoscopy suite in a tertiary-care medical center. Participants Participants consisted of 3 patients with symptomatic, benign tracheal or bronchial web-like stenosis. Interventions Patients were treated with radial electrocautery ablation and balloon dilatation (REA-BD) through flexible bronchoscopy. Measurements and Results Three patients underwent 4 procedures. All treatments resulted in an improved airway cross-sectional area, pulmonary function (3 patients), and symptoms. Recurrence was seen in 2 patients, although only one was symptomatic and responded well to repeat treatment. Conclusions REA-BD is technically feasible and can offer significant advantages over traditional treatments of benign web-like stenosis in terms of cost, avoidance of general anesthesia, and training requirements.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".