title: Airway management for patients with a tracheal bronchus.
abstract: A tracheal bronchus is an aberrant, accessory or ectopic bronchus arising almost invariably from the right lateral wall of the trachea, causing hypoxaemia, atelectasis, or both, during anaesthesia. We describe two patients with a tracheal bronchus found before anaesthesia. One tracheal bronchus was found by tracheobronchoscopy and the other by chest x-ray. Because of recognition of the anomaly before operation, anaesthesia was uneventful in each patient.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Jichi Medical School, Tochigi, Japan.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ikeno
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mitsuhata
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hirabayashi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Akazawa
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kasuda
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Shimizu
mesh_terms: D000768:Anesthesia, General / Q000379:methods*; D001980:Bronchi; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002828:Choristoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography; D014133:Tracheal Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*