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A Rare but Unforgotten Complete Tracheal Rings: Radiologic and Bronchoscopic Images in Adult Patient with Lung Cancer

Hideki Negishi, Hiroyoshi Tsubochi, Masaya Sogabe and Shunsuke Endo*
Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Jichi Medical University Saitama Medical Center, Japan


*Corresponding author: Shunsuke Endo, Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Jichi Medical University Saitama Medical Center, 1-847 Amanuma-cho, Omiya-ku, Saitama, Saitama 330-8503, Japan


Published: 29 Nov, 2017
Cite this article as: Negishi H, Tsubochi H, Sogabe M, Endo S. A Rare but Unforgotten Complete Tracheal Rings: Radiologic and Bronchoscopic Images in Adult Patient with Lung Cancer. Clin Surg. 2017; 2: 1775.

Keywords

Complete tracheal rings; Adult; Lung cancer

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A 67 year – old man underwent a right upper lobectomy for lung cancer. The preoperative computed tomography and bronchoscopy showed a narrow cylindrical trachea with absence of membranous portion. Spirogram did not show abnormality. Right upper lobectomy was uneventful via thoracotomy with a tracheal tube, 7 mm in diameter.

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Chest computed tomography showing a cylindrical trachea, 8 mm in diameter, involving 11 cm long trachea from the 3rd ring down to the carina and a displaced tracheal bronchus to the right upper lobe apical segment.

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Bronchoscopy showing absence of membranous portion.