1969•Nihon Kikan Shokudoka Gakkai KaihoOpen access
Reconstructive Surgery of the Trachea and Bronchus
S. Asai
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Abstract
Reconstructive surgery of the trachea and bronchus were carried on 26 cases (17 cases with tuberculosis, 5 cases with trauma, 2 cases with bronchial adenoma and 2 cases with bronchgenic carcinoma) in last fifteen years in our Clinic. Out of 26 patients, 10 were male and 16 were female.We prefer the sleeve resection and end to end anastomosis as the procedure of choice and the results of our operation are as follows: satisfactory in 20 cases, unsatisfactory in 3 cases and the operative death in 3 cases. The cause of unsatisfactory results were infection, bleeding and granulation and the cause of the death were hemoptysis, lung oedema and cardiac arrest.
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