title: [Pre-neck fixation treatment of severe cervical trachea stenosis (report of 5 cases)].
abstract: Five cases of carvical trachea stenosis are reported in this paper. One was caused by traffic accident. The remaining four resulted from long-term compression by enlarged thyroid glands inducing tracheomalacia and absorption. Tracheatomies were performed on all the patients because of asphyxia. But decanulation failed owing to tracheomalacia. Pre-neck fixations were performed in all patients in order to solve the problem of trachea stenosis, and then the cannulas were removed successfully. During a one-year follow up, all patients healed clinically with no dyspenea.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006042:Goiter / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012086:Reoperation; D014135:Tracheal Stenosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D014140:Tracheotomy