Hermes C. Grillo

TL;DR: The relative insensitivity of CT makes formal nodal sampling at the time of mediastinoscopy or thoracotomy essential to detect lymph node metastases.

TL;DR: A total of 503 patients underwent 521 tracheal resections and reconstructions for postintubation stenosis from 1965 through 1992, with good or satisfactory results, and the most common complication, suture line granulations, has almost vanished with the use of absorbable sutures.

TL;DR: Comparison of length of survival of patients with squamous cell carcinoma and adenoid cystic carcinoma who are alive without disease with those who died with carcinoma supports surgical treatment (usually followed by irradiation); positive lymph nodes or invasive disease at resection margins appear to have an adverse effect on cure of squamouscell carcinoma.

TL;DR: This review discusses the need for tracheal replacement, distinct from resection with primary anastomosis, the requirements for replacement, and the many efforts over the past century to accomplish this goal experimentally and clinically.

TL;DR: Important risk factors for anastomotic complications are reoperation, diabetes, lengthy resections, laryngotracheal resection, young age (pediatric patients), and the need for tracheostomy before operation.