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DOI: 10.1055/s-0041-1727620
38years followup after extensive horizontal tracheal resection. What has changed over the decades?
In the center of this multimedia prasentation are digitally remastered parts of an ancient teaching film from the surgical departement of LMU, Munich. The teaching film shows Hermes Grillo’s technique of horizontal tracheal resection. Two patients from the film were found more than 35 years later for a long term follow up examination of the trachea and lung function. Additionally, the history and course of a patient with extensive tracheal stenosis after radiotherapy and emergency tracheostomy, who where treated with the same surgical method, is shown.
All anastomoses (from 6 month to 38 years) are stable and overgrown by respiratory epithelium. The (extensive) horizontal trachearesection is the only technique with reasonable longterm outcome. The surgeon should not fear tension on the anastomosis. The anastomosis heals properly if all the resorbable sutures were stiched through healty, stable tracheal cartilage.
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13 May 2021
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