Modified sliding tracheal plasty using the bridging bronchus for repair of long-segment tracheal stenosis.

Hagl, Siegfried; Sebening, Christian; Springer, Wolfgang; Loukanov, Tsvetomir · Ann Thorac Surg · 2008

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

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.

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