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Medicine (Baltimore)
May 2020
Emergency Department, the First Hospital of Jilin University, Jilin, China.
Introduction: Central airway stenosis is a life-threating requiring immediate medical intervention. There are several options for treating central airway stenosis, including rigid bronchoscopy, bronchoscopic high-power laser therapy, high-frequency electric needle knife, and balloon-expanding stents. However, interventional techniques may be unavailable in an emergent situation or at smaller local hospitals.
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September 2017
1 Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine.
JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg
May 2016
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania3Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware4Department of Ped.
Importance: Pediatric tracheotomy is a complex procedure with significant postoperative complications. Wound-related complications are increasingly reported and can have considerable impact on clinical course and health care costs to tracheotomy-dependent children.
Objective: The primary objective of this study was to identify the type and rate of complications arising from pediatric tracheotomy.
Int J Oral Maxillofac Surg
August 2012
Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA 02111-1513, USA.
This prospective study assessed the morbidity and mortality associated with 192 consecutive tracheotomies. Complications were assessed including intraoperative and/or postoperative bleeding, infection, tracheoinnominate fistulae, tracheoesophageal fistulae, dislodgement of the tracheotomy tube, pneumothorax, wound infection and obstruction of the airway. 16% of the tracheotomy procedures resulted in complications.
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June 1980
The authors studied the vascular supply of the laryngeal and tracheal mucosa. They based their results on the technique of microangiography. In this study the authors compare the distribution of the small vessels of the mucosa of the cervical trachea and of the larynx--posterior commissure, laryngeal surface of the spiglottis and sub-glottal level.
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