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Thoracoscopic resection of esophageal cancer with a tracheal diverticulum.
General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2018 Februrary
Tracheal diverticulum, a benign entity characterized by single or multiple invaginations of the tracheal wall, is commonly asymptomatic and detected incidentally. We report the case of a 76-year-old man with a tracheal diverticulum who underwent thoracoscopic esophagectomy with a three-field lymphadenectomy for middle thoracic esophageal cancer. The tracheal diverticulum was located at the right posterolateral region of the trachea, which overlapped the region of dissection of the right recurrent laryngeal nerve lymph nodes. Paratracheal lymph node dissection is an important surgical procedure for thoracic esophageal cancer. In such cases, there is a risk of misidentifying a tracheal diverticulum as an enlarged lymph node and injuring it. Injury of a tracheal diverticulum causes serious complications such as mediastinal emphysema, mediastinitis, and pulmonary fistula. It is important to recognize its existence preoperatively and perform accurate lymph node dissection by taking full advantage of the magnified visual effect provided by thoracoscopic surgery.
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