Anesthetic challenges in ventilating patients with tracheal diverticulum:Case reports and review of literature

• 作者: Ikram Chaudhary Mussarat Afzal
• 来源期刊: 世界麻醉学杂志
• 学科: 医学
• 关键词: TRACHEAL DIVERTICULUM DYSPHAGIA HOARSENESS Difficult INTUBATION
• 年，卷（期）: 2014,（3）
• 页码范围: 225-228
• 页数: 4页
• 分类号: R

摘要

The spectrum of disorders involving the tracheobronchial tree is diverse and tracheal diverticulum is an extremely rare entity accounting for 1%-2%of cases.Tracheal diverticulum is mainly asymptomatic and discovered incidentally either on radiological examination or at autopsy.We hereby report two cases of tracheal diverticulum with hoarseness in one case and dysphagia in the second case,where intubation was difficult in both cases.However,laryngeal mask airway was inserted successfully in case one and endotracheal intubation using a smaller size intubation tube in case two.