title: Tracheocele: surgical and thoracoscopic findings.
abstract: We report a rare case of tracheocele found incidentally on a chest computed tomographic scan of a 78-year-old woman undergoing left hemithyroidectomy. The tracheocele was removed, and our operative and thoracoscopic findings are reported herein. The causes and possible clinical implications of tracheocele are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Jichi Medical School, Minamikawachi-machi, Kawachi-gun, Tochigi, Japan. tcvshun@jichi.ac.jp
authors.forename: Shunsuke
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Endo
authors.forename: Noriko
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.forename: Tsuyoshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hasegawa
authors.forename: Yukio
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: Yasunori
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sohara
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006042:Goiter / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D006547:Hernia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D059685:Herniorrhaphy; D006801:Humans; D008476:Mediastinal Cyst / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D016343:Monitoring, Intraoperative; D013906:Thoracoscopy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014133:Tracheal Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*