Successful complete tracheal resection in a three-month-old infant.
We report an infant with severe long-segment tracheal stenosis in whom the posterior trachea was formed by complete cartilage rings and the anterior trachea was almost totally formed by a solid cartilage plate. The child was successfully treated initially by complete resection of the trachea and primary end-to-end repair and subsequently with tracheal homograft transplantation for secondary stenosis.
Jacobs
J P
JP
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, England.
Haw
M P
MP
Motbey
J A
JA
Bailey
C M
CM
Herberhold
C
C
Elliott
M J
MJ
D000714:Anastomosis, Surgical / Q000379:methods; D002356:Cartilage / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012008:Recurrence; D014132:Trachea / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000637:transplantation; D014135:Tracheal Stenosis / Q000151:congenital / Q000601:surgery*; D014140:Tracheotomy / Q000379:methods; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous