Surgery for carcinoid tumor of lungs, bronchi and trachea

Differentiated Approach in Reconstructive Surgery of Large Defects of The Anterior Wall of The Trachea

“…Plastic surgery of extensive defects of the cervical trachea involves the restoration of not only soft tissue defect, but also mucosa and tracheal skeleton function [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. This fact requires an sufficient supply of full-fledged devoid of hairs skin in the reconstruction zone.…”

“…The choice of a method for eliminating a tracheal defect depends on its size, the depth of the airway lumen and the state of the surrounding tissue defect [1,10,11]. With a small size of the defect, a depth of the respiratory tract more than 1.5 cm, and an unexpressed scar process around the defect, it is possible to use local plastics [1,3,7,11].…”