A new surgical technique for adenoid cystic carcinoma involving tracheal carina.
Reported is the successful treatment of a 24-year-old male with adenocystic carcinoma involving the tracheal carina, in which the tumor extended along the right main bronchus across the orifice of the right upper lobe. The patient underwent a carinal resection plus right upper lobectomy and reconstruction of the carina, resulting in neither anastomotic complication nor recurrence of disease during 28 months of follow-up.
Sayar
Adnan
A
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Yedikule Teaching Hospital for Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery, Istanbul 81080, Turkey.
Metin
Muzaffer
M
Solak
Okan
O
Turna
Akif
A
Alzafer
Süha
S
Ece
Turan
T
D000328:Adult; D000714:Anastomosis, Surgical / Q000379:methods; D001984:Bronchial Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D003528:Carcinoma, Adenoid Cystic / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D013536:Suture Techniques; D014134:Tracheal Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*