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Surgical management of idiopathic tracheal stenosis

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Most nonmalignant upper tracheal stenoses are caused by prolonged endotracheal intubation or tracheostomy, and idiopathic stenosis is uncommon. A 43-year-old woman complained of increasing shortness of breath during exercise over a year prior to admission. She had no significant past medical history, including endotracheal intubation. Bronchoscopy and tracheal tomography revealed nonmalignant circumferential upper tracheal stenosis 20 mm long. Single-stage surgical resection with cricotracheal anastomosis completely relieved her respiratory symptoms. Idiopathic tracheal stenosis is extremely rare, and the treatment of choice is surgery.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Shimizu City Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan

    Shunsuke Yamada & Akio Kosaka

  2. Department of Surgery, Medical Center, Saitama University School of Medicine, Saitama, Japan

    Koji Kikuchi

  3. Department of Surgery, Tokai University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

    Hiroshi Inoue

  4. Department of Pathology, Tokai University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

    Shinobu Umemura

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Yamada, S., Kikuchi, K., Kosaka, A. et al. Surgical management of idiopathic tracheal stenosis. Jpn J Thorac Caridovasc Surg 47, 335–338 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03218021

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