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Tracheocele: surgical and thoracoscopic findings.

Endo S, Saito N, Hasegawa T, Sato Y, Sohara Y

Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Jichi Medical School, Minamikawachi-machi, Kawachi-gun, Tochigi, Japan. tcvshun@jichi.ac.jp

We report a rare case of tracheocele found incidentally on a chest computed tomographic scan of a 78-year-old woman undergoing left hemithyroidectomy. The tracheocele was removed, and our operative and thoracoscopic findings are reported herein. The causes and possible clinical implications of tracheocele are discussed.

Published 31 January 2005 in Ann Thorac Surg, 79(2): 686-7.
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