Abstract   Background: Iatrogenic airway injury after endotracheal intubation and tracheotomy   remains a serious clinical problem. In this study we reviewed post-intubation and traumatic tracheal stenosis in 47 patients with a special attention to the cause, hense surgical treatment of the stenosis was performed and the results compared with the literatures.   Methods: Since February 1995 th...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the use of balloon-expandable metallic stents in the treatment of children with tracheomalacia and bronchomalacia in whom conventional therapy has failed. DESIGN Retrospective case series. SETTING Tertiary pediatric otolaryngology and cardiothoracic surgery referral center. PATIENTS Six patients were identified as having undergone bronchoscopic placement of metallic ...

To the Editor: Long-segment congenital tracheal stenosis is difficult to treat surgically or conservatively. We experienced the perioperative management of such an infant treated with several sessions of balloon tracheal dilatation for a year until he finally underwent tracheoplasty. The patient was a 2522 g, one-day-old trisomy-21 boy scheduled for colostomy for imperforate anus and was found ...

Airway problems in the neonatal population are often life threatening and raise challenging issues in diagnosis and management. The airway problems can result from congenital or acquired lesions and can be broadly classified into those causing obstruction or those due to an abnormal "communication" in the airway. Many different investigations are now available to identify the diagnosis and quan...

BACKGROUND Postintubation tracheal stenosis remains the most common indication for tracheal surgery. In the event of a rapid and progressive course of the disease after extubation, surgical approaches such as primary resection and anastomosis or various methods of tracheoplasty should be selected. We report our experience with surgical management of moderate to severe postintubation tracheal st...

OBJECTIVES Prior research has shown that airway reconstructive procedures comprise significant composite morbidity compared to the whole of pediatric otolaryngologic cases evaluated in the American College of Surgeon's National Surgery Quality Improvement Program-Pediatric (ACS-NSQIP-P) platform. We describe postoperative sequelae of pediatric airway reconstructive procedures and identify predi...

List of illustrations List of Tables Abbreviations Acknowledgements Chapter 1 1.I Background and Aims of Thesis Chapter 2 2.I Embryology 2.II Anatomy 2.III History of Airway Surgery 2.III.a Tracheostomy and Airway intubation 2.III.b Laryngoscopy 2.III.c Bronchoscopy 2.III.d Surgery for laryngotracheal Stenosis 2.III.e Tracheobronchial stenting 2.III.f Lasers 2.III.g Mitomycin-C Chapter 3 3.I Su...