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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.