Ten patients were seen in Northern Syria with tracheobronchial injury from June 1986 to July 1988. Eight were male; and five were children. Blunt trauma was the cause of rupture in five and penetrating trauma in five. Nine patients had associated injuries. In seven, the diagnosis was made within 24 h. The seven patients who had surgery were well at last follow-up, as was a child with a main bro...

Objective: to discuss the clinical and therapeutic aspects of tracheobronchial lesions in victims of thoracic trauma. Methods: we analyzed the medical records of patients with tracheobronchial lesions treated at the São Paulo Holy Home from April 1991 to June 2008. We established patients' severity through physiological (RTS) and anatomical trauma indices (ISS, PTTI). We used TRISS (Trauma Re...

OBJECTIVE Tracheobronchial injuries have different clinical pictures and high mortality unless aggressive treatment is used. We reviewed our surgical experience. METHODS The records of 32 patients from 1988 to 2002 were reviewed. Mean age was 22.3 years (range: 4-53). Three patients were female. Prominent symptoms were dyspnea, subcutaneous air and pneumothorax in chest X-rays. Associated inj...

Granulomatosis with Polyangitis (GPA), previously known as Wegener’s Granulomatosis, is a form of anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA)-associated vascuilitis predominantly involving the upper and lower respiratory tract and kidneys. Tracheobronchial involvement in GPA can have varied manifestations which include airway inflammation, mucosal granulomas, tracheobronchial stenosis, trache...

Background: Tracheobronchial schwannomas are extremely rare tumors of neurogenic origin. Treatment includes surgery and interventional bronchoscopic therapy. Studies that have described therapy for tracheobronchial schwannoma been reported in the published literature, but most them individual case reports, which long-term efficacy recurrence poorly understood. This study aimed to explore feasib...

Tracheobronchial injuries are rare but life-threatening conditions in patients with blunt thoracic trauma. The diagnosis and management of such injury may often be delayed due to other concomitant severe injuries. No reported case of a robotic-assisted bronchial reconstruction has ever been performed for a traumatic bronchial injury. A 23-year-old male suffered from traumatic left main bronchia...

Patients with cervical spinal cord injury frequently need prolonged mechanical ventilation as a result of worsening pulmonary vital capacity due to paralysis of respiratory muscles, severe impairment of tracheobronchial secretions clearance and high incidence of respiratory complications like pneumonia or atelectasis. Patients with thoracic spinal cord injury may need mechanical ventilation due...

INTRODUCTION Severe blunt injury of the chest can cause rupture of the tracheobronchial tree. After completed management of the injury, stenosis of the bronchi may develop at the site of the rupture. Such condition is associated with pathophysiolocical disorders, which then indicates to the possible presence of the bronchial stenosis. CASE REPORT We report a patient with stenosis of the right...