[Reconstruction of tracheal stenosis at thoracic inlet level (author's transl)]

Complex operative cases of tracheal stenosis in the region of the thoracic inlet are described. The stenosed tracheas were additionally constricted by: a dislocated osteomyelitic clavicle, which was tethered by scar-tissue; an osteoma of the manubrium sterni; a goitre, which was fixed into the thoracic inlet by scar tissue of an early childhood tracheostomy; and a retrosternal goitre. In two further cases the reconstruction of a long tracheal stenosis at the thoracic inlet was complicated by an existing paraplegia.