BACKGROUND Spontaneous pneumomediastinum is a self-limiting benign disease but abnormal bronchial lesions can be rarely found incidentally, and in selected cases will require surgical resection. MATERIALS AND METHODS A 38-year-old man presented with a spontaneous pneumomediastinum. Chest computed tomography revealed an incidental linear endobronchial tumour in the aberrant tracheal bronchus. ...

BACKGROUND Primary tracheal tumors are rare, accounting for only 0.2% of all thoracic cancers. Adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) diagnosed in the trachea is very uncommon and its coexistence with second histologically distinct malignant tumors of he neck region has never been reported. SUMMARY We now report a case of multiple primary laryngotracheal ACC and thyroid follicular carcinoma surgicall...

Primary tracheal tumours are histologically similar but 100 times less common than main stem tumours. We report a case of primary tracheal schwannoma in a middle aged man. He had chronic cough for 2 years, and developed hemoptysis and stridor in the days preceding to presentation. He was treated by resection of the tumour and primary anatomosis of the trachea. The patient recovered well after s...

Airway management of patients with tracheal stenosis is highly challenging and even establishing a surgical airway may be difficult in these patients. A 24 year old female developed pinhole restenosis after undergoing web resection reconstruction. After other modes ventilation had failed, we used the Manual jet ventilator endotracheal tube assembly as rescue device performed intermittent low-fr...

Focal non-neoplastic stenoses of the trachea are uncommon and many of these are complications of either endotracheal intubation or placement of tracheostomy tube. The pathogenesis of post-intubation tracheal stenoses (PITS) may be related to multiple factors (infection due to bacterial colonization, meccanical irritation, hypotension, gastroesophageal reflux, underlying illness), but the ischem...

Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors (IMTs) are rare childhood neoplasms, with benign clinical course. Although etiology of IMTs are not clear, recent studies have reported that IMT is a true neoplasm rather than a reactive or inflammatory lesion. IMTs are rarely seen in adults and tracheal involvement is also rare both in adults and also in children. We describe a 16-year old female patient who...

Hamartoma is rarely found to be localized in the trachea. In the literature, only about ten cases have been reported. A 52-year-old male who was being treated for asthma for 15 years applied to our hospital with a progressive dyspnea complaint. During his physical examination, stridor was heard, after which a computed tomography of his chest revealed a tracheal mass. Fiberoptic bronchoscopy rev...

Mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the trachea is a rare tumor. We report an 80-year-old male with mucoepidermoid carcinoma in the upper trachea with invasion of the isthmus of thyroid gland. The patient’s major symptom was dyspnea with coughing. Computed tomography scan showed a protruding mass into the trachea suspected of thyroid cancer. Ultrasonography also revealed the suspicion of an invasive th...

Epithelial-myoepithelial carcinomas are rare tumors that primarily originate in the salivary glands but have also been found in the tracheobronchial tree. We report the first case of epithelial-myoepithelial carcinoma associated with sarcoidosis. A 61 year old Hispanic man presented with altered mental status and hypercalcemia. Imaging revealed diffuse intra-thoracic and intra-abdominal lymphad...