Modified sliding tracheal plasty using the bridging bronchus for repair of long-segment tracheal stenosis.
A child with severe respiratory distress, previously operated on at age 4 months for pulmonary sling and atrial septal defect, underwent reoperation at age 4 years because of long-segment congenital tracheal stenosis complicated by an abnormal branching of the trachea-bridging bronchus. We review the anatomy of that rare pathomorphology and describe a slide tracheoplasty that uses the bridging bronchus for treatment of this complex anomaly.
Hagl
Siegfried
S
Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
Sebening
Christian
C
Springer
Wolfgang
W
Loukanov
Tsvetomir
T
D001980:Bronchi / Q000601:surgery*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D019616:Thoracic Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D014135:Tracheal Stenosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*