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4-Year Follow-Up in a Child With a Total Autologous Tracheal Replacement

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Submitted by

Claire Vernon

Source

Source Name: New England Journal of Medicine

Source URL: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1800095

Author(s)

Frédéric Kolb, François Simon, Régis Gaudin, Briac Thierry, Sacha Mussot, Laurent Dupic, Jean-Louis Coste, Françoise Denoyelle, Vincent Couloigner, Erea-Noël Garabedian

Kolb and colleagues describe their experience with tracheal replacement in a 12-year-old child with severe tracheal stenosis, for whom other available treatments had failed. The surgical team fashioned the new trachea from a myocutaneous latissimus dorsi free flap and chondrocartilage slings, using techniques that have been successfully performed in adults.