'Slipped' trachea during laryngo-oesophagectomy

An anaesthetic technique of use in the reconstructive surgery following pharyngo-laryngo-oesophagectomy.

MODERN anaesthesia, in association with angular skin flap has been deflected from blood transfusion and antibiotics, has the anterior cervical region and the underopened up fresh fields to surgery. As a lying hyoid bone, larynx (with a number corollary, the confidence of surgeons in of tracheal rings), hypopharynx and some their anaesthetists tends to put increasing inches of oesophagus with th...

Endoscopy of Larynx and Trachea with Rigid Laryngo-Tracheoscopes Under Superimposed High-Frequency Jet Ventilation (SHFJV)

1.1.1. Indirect laryngoscopy Knowing that almost all laryngeal and tracheal diseases are visible at the surface of the mucous membranes it is of particular interest to visualize these structures. Endoscopic examinations of the larynx and the trachea are essential in the otorhinolaryngo‐ logical field and had their beginning over 200 years ago. Before the 1800`s only autopsy specimen could clari...

Lower tracheal and carinal resection associated with subtotal oesophagectomy for carcinoma of oesophagus involving trachea.

Involvement of the tracheobronchial tree by carcinoma of the oesophagus has always been regarded as a contra-indication to surgical resection or radiotherapy, the danger of producing an oesophagotracheal or bronchial fistula in the latter form of treatment precluding its use. Management has been confined, generally, to the insertion of a plastic tube through the malignant stricture, thus allowi...

Laryngo - pharyngeal Tuberculosis Summary

Emergency oesophagectomy.