[Pre-neck fixation treatment of severe cervical trachea stenosis (report of 5 cases)]

Five cases of carvical trachea stenosis are reported in this paper. One was caused by traffic accident. The remaining four resulted from long-term compression by enlarged thyroid glands inducing tracheomalacia and absorption. Tracheatomies were performed on all the patients because of asphyxia. But decanulation failed owing to tracheomalacia. Pre-neck fixations were performed in all patients in order to solve the problem of trachea stenosis, and then the cannulas were removed successfully. During a one-year follow up, all patients healed clinically with no dyspenea.