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Idiopathic tracheal stenoses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

P. G. Harries ,
P. S. Mason ,
A. D. Ramsay  and
J. A. S. Carruth
P. G. Harries*
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK.
P. S. Mason
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK.
A. D. Ramsay
Affiliation:
Department of Histopathology, Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK.
J. A. S. Carruth
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK.
*
Address for correspondence: Mr P. G. Harries, F.R.C.S, Department of Otolaryngology, Salisbury Healthcare NHS Trust, Salisbury District Hospital, Salisbury SP2 8BJ. Fax: 01722 322871
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Abstract

The case histories are presented of three patients with circumferential subglottic stenoses who presented, over a six-month period, to a teaching hospital's Otolaryngology department. No recognisable cause for their subglottic stenoses was found. Traumatic, iatrogenic, infectious and specific inflammatory processes were excluded. The histopathological evidence suggested a chronic inflammatory process. All patients were treated by resecting the stenosis with a carbon dioxide laser. One patient required an emergency tracheostomy for airway obstruction. A review of the published literature on this rare condition is given.

Keywords

Tracheal stenosisLaser surgery
Type
Clinical Records
Information
The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 110 , Issue 10 , October 1996 , pp. 973 - 975
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1996

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Footnotes

Presented to the Second International Symposium on Laryngeal and Tracheal Reconstruction, Monte Carlo, Monaco, May 1996.

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