Tumour-induced intraluminal stenoses of the cervical trachea--tumour excision and tracheoplasty.
Three children with stenoses of the cervical trachea caused by tumours are reported on. The first was a 13-year-old girl with a sarcoma of the tracheal wall 20 cm down. We performed partial resection of the trachea and turned a skin flap according to Denecke into the defect. In the second case a capillary haemangioma had caused severe stenosis, requiring resection of the tumour together with the tracheal mucosa. A haemangioma had caused tracheal stenosis in the third case, too; in this child partial tracheal resection and skin flap plasty were performed. The postoperative course was uneventful in all three children. So far, there is no recurrence of the sarcoma 4 1/2 years after operation.
D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000601:surgery*; D014132:Trachea / Q000601:surgery*; D014134:Tracheal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D014135:Tracheal Stenosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*