Trachea and Bronchi - Tumors
The patient is a seventy-one-year-old male with a history of Hurthle cell carcinoma who initially underwent thyroidectomy and central neck dissection, follow by radioactive iodine. He developed recurrence after 10 years with tracheal invasion, which...
Segmentectomy is on the rise, but understanding of the segmental bronchial branching pattern is limited. Computed tomography scans of 303 patients were used to determine and categorize the branching of...
The authors interrogated a Norwegian national database for patients with tracheal cancer, a rare but treatable disease. Seventy-sevent patients were identified, giving a crude incidence rate of 0.075 per 100,000...
A detailed and robust meta-analysis asserting lack of strong evidence supporting either modality.
...The authors present the care provided to a 40-year-old man, a smoker, with a nonrelevant past history, experiencing chronic irritative cough and bloody sputum since one month before consultation. During...
This article shares 15 years’ worth of experience of bronchoscopy. Originally designed for cardiothoracic surgical trainees, others will find it resourceful. In particular, it’s a good reference to have for...
Objectives Bronchial neuroendocrine tumors are an uncommon neoplasm of the lungs characterized by an endobronchial mass that mostly arise in the proximal airways. This video demonstrates successful management of an...
In this video, the author presents a Barclay’s type of carinal resection. The patient was a 54-year-old woman who had coughing, wheezing, and shortness of breath. Chest x-ray and computed...
This systematic review by Udelsman and colleagues assesses the clinical successes and setbacks of the current methods of airway replacement. Twenty-one studies, focusing primarily on the clinical translation of circumferential...
As many will recall, world chess champion Garry Kasparov was defeated by IBM’s Deep Blue computer in 1997. Now machine-learning algorithms have bested trained pathologists in differentiating between benign and...
I particularly enjoyed Table 1 of this succinct mini manual on ‘ robotic’ assisted oncologic pulmonary resections (‘robotic’ is a catchy cross-speciality misnomer particularly adored by popular media; probably too...
Maninder Singh Kalkat of Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom, discusses palliative treatments for non-resectable tracheal tumors. The aims of palliation in these cases are to improve the patient’s ability to...
The authors describe results of initial bronchoscopy therapy (IBT) for endobronchial carcinoids aimed at relieving obstruction, accurate subtyping, and potentially complete eradication. After a minimum follow-up of 5 years, 42%...





