Respiratory Medicine Case Reports (Jan 2018)

New hybrid method for trachea dilatation with rigid and flexible tools

  • Konstantinos Sapalidis,
  • Stella Laskou,
  • Aikaterini Amaniti,
  • Charilaos Koulouris,
  • Dimitrios Giannakidis,
  • Stylianos Mantalovas,
  • Ilias Karapantzos,
  • Chrysa Karapantzou,
  • Paul Zarogoulidis,
  • Iakovos Arapakis,
  • Haidong Huang,
  • Chong Bai,
  • Ioanna Kougioumtzi,
  • Nikolaos Katsikogiannis,
  • Eirini Sarika,
  • Fotis Konstantinou,
  • Wolfgang Hohenforst-Schmidt,
  • Isaak Kesisoglou

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 24
pp. 65 – 73

Abstract

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Trachea stenosis is observed either in benign or malignant situations. In cancer malignancy a tumor might obstruct the central airway in three different ways. Again granuloma tissue is usually observed after intubation or stent placement in order to manage a benign malformation of the trachea. In any case there are several tools and techniques that can be used either with surgery or endoscopically to manage such situation. We will focus on a hybrid technique in order to ventilate the patient while performing endoscopic management of granuloma tissue. Keywords: Trachea, Balloon dilation, Rigid scope, Endoscopy