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JTCVS Tech
February 2024
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY.
JTCVS Tech
September 2020
Toronto Lung Transplant Program, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Ann Thorac Surg
May 2011
Division of Thoracic Surgery and Interventional Pulmonology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.
Background: Tracheobronchomalacia is an underrecognized cause of dyspnea, recurrent respiratory infections, and cough. Surgical stabilization with posterior membranous tracheobronchoplasty has been shown to be effective in selected patients with severe disease. This study examines the technical details and complications of this operation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFKaohsiung J Med Sci
November 2010
Department of Surgery, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
A 43-year-old woman, with a history of asthma that had been treated for the previous 3 years, was diagnosed with an endobronchial tumor, based on chest computed tomography. A biopsy proved the tumor to be adenoid cystic carcinoma. For carinal involvement and submucosal extension in the left main bronchus, rigid bronchoscopy was done to maintain airway patency, and then a left sleeve pneumonectomy was done via a right thoracotomy and left video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRespirology
September 1997
Department of Surgery, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan.
This study was carried out in order to evaluate the surgical results of benign tracheobronchial diseases. Between July 1988 and March 1996, tracheobronchial surgery was performed on 29 patients with a variety of benign diseases. The primary diseases were post intubation or post tracheostomy tracheal stenosis (n = 12), tuberculous stenosis (n = 7), congenital tracheal stenosis with or without vascular ring (n = 4), tracheobronchial tumour (n = 2), oesophageal tumour (n = 1), and miscellaneous conditions (n = 3).
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