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Author(s):  
Bohao Liu ◽  
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Kun Fan ◽  
Jizhao Wang ◽  
Hongyi Wang ◽  
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Background: Tracheal Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SCC) is a rare primary tumour. Currently, surgery is the main treatment, but it becomes the biggest obstacle to surgery when the tumour invades the trachea for more than 6 cm. Case presentation: A 56-year-old Asian man presented with expectoration and asthma as his initial symptoms. Because of the particularity of tumour location and volume, we removed the 7 cm bronchus and performed carinau reconstruction. Conclusion: How to treat the rare tumours at tracheal carina is a valuable and rare example that could be reference in many centres.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Masato Karayama ◽  
Yoichiro Aoshima ◽  
Hideki Yasui ◽  
Hironao Hozumi ◽  
Yuzo Suzuki ◽  
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AbstractDetection of idiopathic interstitial pneumonias (IIPs) on chest X-ray is difficult for non-specialist physicians, especially in patients with mild IIPs. The current study aimed to evaluate the usefulness of a simple method for detecting IIPs by measuring vertical lung length (VLL) in chest X-rays to quantify decreased lung volume. A total of 280 consecutive patients with IIPs were randomly allocated to exploratory and validation cohorts, and 140 controls were selected for each cohort by propensity score-matching. Upper (uVLL; from apex to tracheal carina), lower (lVLL; from carina to costophrenic angle), and total VLL (tVLL; from apex to costophrenic angle), and the l/uVLL ratio were measured on chest X-rays. Patients in the exploratory cohort had significantly decreased uVLL, lVLL, tVLL, and l/uVLL ratio compared with controls (all p < 0.001). Receiver operating characteristic curve analyses demonstrated that lVLL (area under the curve [AUC] 0.86, sensitivity 0.65, specificity 0.92), tVLL (AUC 0.83, sensitivity 0.75, specificity 0.80), and l/uVLL ratio (AUC 0.80, sensitivity 0.72, specificity 0.79) had high diagnostic accuracies for IIPs. These results were reproduced in the validation cohort. IIP patients thus have decreased VLLs, and measurements of VLL may thus aid the accurate detection of IIPs.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoyang Hong ◽  
Ruijie Li ◽  
Zhe Zhao ◽  
Jiangheng Guan ◽  
Hui Wang ◽  
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Abstract Pulmonary artery sling (PA sling) often presents as a life-threatening condition requiring urgent surgical correction. We reported 32 cases of PA sling in children who were followed up postoperatively in the past 6 years. All patients with PA slings who were admitted to the hospital from January 2012 to December 2017 and underwent surgery were retrospectively analyzed. The mean age of the 32 patients at repair was 16.97 months (range, 15 days to 128 months). Six patients required ventilator assistance for respiratory failure. All children underwent left pulmonary artery (LPA) reimplantation (n = 32), and 3 patients needed reimplantation slide tracheoplasty (n = 3) due to ventilation weaning failure. Four patients died, 27 patients survived until discharge, and 18 patients were followed up. Pulmonary computed tomography imaging and echocardiography were performed in 18 patients who were followed up. After LPA reimplantation, the tracheal carina area was significantly enlarged compared to that preoperation (p = 0.0002). In this follow-up cohort study, 75% of the patients who underwent LPA reimplantation survived until discharge. The survivors had subsequently well-developed pulmonary arteries and tracheas.


2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoxia Zhang ◽  
Dan Jia ◽  
Nengwen Ke ◽  
Chang Liu ◽  
Lan Fu ◽  
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Introduction: Accurate identification of position of a central venous catheter tip is important to reduce catheter-related complications. Nevertheless, inter-observer bias limits the accuracy of traditional method for determining tip position on chest x-ray (CXR) images. The aim of this study was to explore a simple and objective method for assessing position of peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) tip on CXR image. Methods: Tracheal carina was used as the landmark to identify positions of catheter tips. The central vein (CV) was located between 3 cm above and 4 cm below tracheal carina. The vertical distance from catheter tips to tracheal carina was measured independently by a nurse and re-assessed by a radiologist. Inter-observer agreement was expressed as percentage in agreement and kappa coefficient. Results: Six hundred and twelve CXR images of catheters taken from 612 patients were included. The inter-observer agreement between nurse and radiologist was 97.88% (kappa = 0.934) for all catheter tips evaluated, and 98.40% (kappa = 0.923) for catheter tips with regard to CV, innominate vein, and right atrium. Most discrepancies (9/13) between observers occurred when catheter tips were positioned in a border region between different anatomical parts. Conclusions: Inter-observer agreement between nurse and radiologist is excellent. Our results demonstrate that the measurement of distance between catheter tip and tracheal carina performed by a nurse provide a convenient and reliable way to determine position of PICC tip. Our study also suggests that nurses can be trained to handle PICCs, especially when properly located catheters are applied in critically ill patients during emergency setting.


2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. S2359
Author(s):  
E. Levchenko ◽  
S. Ergnyan ◽  
V. Shutov ◽  
A. Barchuk ◽  
N. Levchenko ◽  
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2014 ◽  
Vol 202 (4) ◽  
pp. 880-885 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinoo Kim ◽  
Ji Hoon Shin ◽  
Jin-Hyoung Kim ◽  
Ho-Young Song ◽  
Soon-Young Song ◽  
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