Endoscopically Applied Biodegradable Stent in a Rabbit Model of Pediatric Tracheomalacia.

"CONFLICT OF INTEREST: Among the authors of this paper, Sang Min Joo, Yeo Jin Jun, and Kil Won Son are employees of Taewoong Medical Co., Ltd., the company that manufactures the stent. They contributed to the development of the stent and instrumentation. There are no other potential conflicts of interest relevant to this article."

"This research was supported by a grant of the Korea Health Technology R&D Project through the Korea Health Industry Development Institute, funded by the Ministry of Health & Welfare, Republic of Korea (grant numbers HI18C1174 and HI14C1277), by the Bio & Medical Technology Development Program of the National Research Foundation (NRF) funded by the Korean government (MSIT) (grant number 2019M3A9H1103617), and by Seoul National University Research Fund (grant number 0420193030). AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Conceptualization: SAP, SMJ, SKK. Data curation: JSC, JS, MRE, EJ, SAP, SMJ, YJJ, KWS. Formal analysis: JSC, SAP, SMJ. Funding acquisition: SKK. Methodology: JSC, SMJ, SKK. Project administration: SKK. Visualization: JSC, JS. Writing–original draft: JSC, JS. Writing–review & editing: JSC, JS, SKK."