title: Intra-operative tracheal obstruction by tumour fragments.
abstract: A patient underwent oesophageal dilatation for invasive secondary carcinoma. During the course of the procedure, ventilation of the patient's lungs became impossible due to total tracheal obstruction. A rigid bronchoscopy was performed and the cause was found to be fragments of tumour that had broken off and were behaving like a ball-valve in the trachea and right main bronchus.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthetics, Raigmore Hospital, Inverness.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tzabar
mesh_terms: D000402:Airway Obstruction / Q000209:etiology*; D001999:Bronchoscopy; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007431:Intraoperative Complications; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012121:Respiration, Artificial; D014134:Tracheal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery