Do you consider the duration of lung/lobar atelectasis in your decision making while offering airway stents for malignant central airway obstruction?   

Yes, always. We review old imaging to determine when there is a post obstructive pneumonia or collapsed lobe/lung secondary to endobronchial obstruction (extrinsic or intrinsic). The old teaching was that, if a lobe is down for more than two months, it is unlikely to be salvaged, even after the en...