A 47-year old woman presented with large cell carcinoma with extensive lengthwise and circumferential invasion of the lower trachea. End-to-end anastomosis by suture lines alone may be impossible and even harmful, following tumour resection with such extensive tracheal involvement. Thus, we performed a successful tracheal reconstruction with bronchoplastic closure without complications or recur...

The authors report the case of 46-year-old man with recurrent hemoptysis. Bronchoscopy revealed a submucosal tumor protruding into the tracheal lumen. Transbronchial biopsy failed to obtain a conclusive diagnosis; only surgery allowed complete resection of the tumor and confirmed the diagnosis of tracheal mucoepidermoid carcinoma. We discuss the unusual submucosal presentation of this tumor, an...

A 54-year-old female patient, a breast cancer survivor and a case of unresectable adenoid cystic carcinoma of the trachea, with thyroid invasion, presented with suprasternal neck swelling mimicking thyroid primary. A literature search was undertaken to highlight this rare presentation. There have been few reports in the literature describing tracheal adenoid cystic carcinoma involving the thyroid.

BACKGROUND Primary tracheal tumours are rare, so few physicians have extensive experience of their management. No direct comparisons have been made of surgical and radiotherapy treatment. METHODS A postal survey of cases presenting in the last 10 years in the United Kingdom was conducted. Results were expressed as cumulative survival and survival curves were compared by the log rank test. R...

a 62-yr-old woman with a history of papillary carcinoma of thyroid who had undergone thyroidectomy and tracheostomy 5 years prior to admission, presented with bleeding from the site of tracheostomy. attempts to control the bleeding failed, and the patient was immediately transported to the operating room. awake intubation was performed and the endotracheal tube was sutured to the skin. a tear i...

BACKGROUND Primary malignant tracheal tumors are rare, accounting for approximately 0.2 % of respiratory tract tumors yearly, with squamous cell carcinomas and adenoid cystic carcinomas accounting for two-thirds of these cases. Sarcomatoid carcinomas are a group of poorly differentiated non-small cell lung carcinomas containing a component of sarcoma or sarcoma-like (spindle and/or giant cell) ...

Tracheal squamous cell carcinoma detected early in a high-risk patient has been treated twice with local neodymium-yttrium aluminium garnet laser therapy with good result so far. Ongoing bronchoscopic monitoring continues.

We have treated surgically 11 patients with thyroid carcinoma that had infiltrated into the trachea. Three patients had primary tumours, and eight had recurrent tumours after previous operations. Sleeve resection of trachea was performed where thyroid carcinoma had proliferated; the trachea was reconstructed by end-to-end anastomosis. In two patients 10 rings of the trachea were resected. In th...

A survey is given of upper respiratory tract tumors in Cpb:WU (Wistar random) rats. Data were collected from ten 24- to 30-month toxicity/carcinogenicity studies and from one 12-month study. Nasal tumors may lead to dyspnea, mouth breathing, and nasal discharge. These clinical signs mainly occurred in rats bearing squamous cell carcinomas. The large nasal tumors were often osteolytic, they inva...