Cesare Piazza, Davide Lancini, Michele Tomasoni, Anil D'Cruz, Dana M Hartl, Luiz P Kowalski, Gregory W Randolph, Alessandra Rinaldo, Jatin P Shah, Ashok R Shaha, Ricard Simo, Vincent Vander Poorten, Mark Zafereo, Alfio Ferlito
Airway involvement by advanced thyroid carcinoma (TC) constitutes a negative prognosticator, besides being a critical clinical issue since it represents one of the most frequent causes of death in locally advanced disease. It is generally agreed that, for appropriate laryngo-tracheal patterns of invasion, (crico-)tracheal resection and primary anastomosis [(C)TRA] is the preferred surgical technique in this clinical scenario. However, the results of long-term outcomes of (C)TRA are scarce in the literature, due to the rarity of such cases...
2021: Frontiers in Endocrinology