Surgical treatment of descending necrotising mediastinitis caused by odontogenic infection: a retrospective analysis of 20 patients.

Objectives: Analysing the results of patients with odontogenic descending necrotising mediastinitis (DNM) treated predominantly by transcervical approach.

Background: Odontogenic DNM is a rare but serious complication of dental disease and dental procedures.

Methods: Retrospective evaluation of 20 patients who underwent surgery for odontogenic DNM.

[Metachronous lung metastases of mammary carcinoma, or dual malignancy? a surgeons and oncologists point of view case report].

Synchronous and metachronous metastases significantly diminish the possibility of remission from cancer. Therefore, therapy needs to be highly effective and strictly individualised. The authors present a case report of a female patient after radical mastectomy due to breast cancer with incidental detection of peripheral lung carcinoid.

[The management of restenosis following segmental resection for postintubation tracheal injury].

Aim Of Study: In dealing with benign tracheal stenosis, segmental tracheal resection yields superior results in experienced hands when properly indicated, timed end executed. Several factors may contribute to early or delayed failure of resectional treatment. In our retrospective study we analyze the potential causes of tracheal restenosis in patients who underwent segmental tracheal resection for benign tracheal stenosis between 1995-2009 and propose an algorithm for prevention and treatment of such complication.

[Possibilities and results of surgical treatment of benign tracheoesophageal fistula].

Aim: Review of literature and a single-institution retrospective analysis of possibilities and results of various surgical techniques in treatment of benign tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF).

Material And Methods: Between 1995 and 2010, 26 patients with benign tracheoesophageal fistula of various etiology underwent surgical treatment at the Department of Thoracic Surgery of Slovak Medical University and Faculty Hospital in Bratislava. The majority of patients had a postintubation TEF (21 cases), two fistulas were of traumatic origin, one iatrogenic, one congenital with adulthood manifestation and one tracheo-neoesophageal (TNEF) following an esophagectomy for carcinoma via extended cervical approach with lymphadenectomy and sternal retraction adpoted from transcervical extended mediastinal lymphadenectomy.

Urgent segmental resection as the primary strategy in management of benign tracheal stenosis. A single center experience in 164 consecutive cases.

The report is a retrospective review of 238 benign tracheal stenoses of various etiologies treated between 1995 and 2008. To show that urgent segmental resection has complication rates similar to elective resection and, therefore, preoperative dilation is not necessary, we analysed records of patients who underwent either standard segmental resections with anterolateral mediastinal tracheal mobilization, single-suture anastomosis and neck flexion; or insertion of T-tube with oval-shaped horizontal arm. Primary segmental resection was performed in 164 patients (68.