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Transcervical-transtracheal endoluminal repair of membranous tracheal disruptions
C Lancelin1, A R Chapelier, E Fadel
1Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery and Heart-Lung Transplantation, Marie-Lannelongue Hospital, Paris-Sud University, Le Plessis Robinson, France.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|October 4, 2000
Abstract:
Tracheal lacerations are rare and potentially hazardous complications of tracheal intubation. Surgical repair is the treatment of choice of tracheal injuries although nonoperative management is occasionally appropriate for well-selected patients. We describe our personal technique of anterior transcervical-transtracheal endoluminal suture of iatrogenic lacerations of the membranous trachea and our results with this approach in 8 patients. This method is less invasive than conventional cervical or transthoracic approaches.