Surgical Treatment of a Neuromucoepidermoid Carcinoma of the Left Main Bronchus via Posterolateral Thoracotomy in a 4-Year-Old Boy

Markus Liebrich; Godehard Friedel; Peter Amrhein; Ioannis Tzanavaros

doi:10.1055/s-0039-3400533

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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Rep 2020; 09(01): e1-e3
DOI: 10.1055/s-0039-3400533

Case Report: Thoracic

Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

Surgical Treatment of a Neuromucoepidermoid Carcinoma of the Left Main Bronchus via Posterolateral Thoracotomy in a 4-Year-Old Boy

Markus Liebrich

¹Department of Cardiac Surgery, Sana Herzchirurgie Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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Godehard Friedel

²Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Tubingen Faculty of Science, Tubingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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Peter Amrhein

³Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Klinikum Stuttgart Katharinenhospital, Olgahospital, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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Ioannis Tzanavaros

¹Department of Cardiac Surgery, Sana Herzchirurgie Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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Abstract

We report the case of a 4-year-old boy with a neuromucoepidermoid carcinoma of the left main bronchus. Complete resection of the carcinoma and reconstruction of the carina between lower and upper lobe by means of an end-to-end anastomosis was performed via a left-sided thoracotomy.

Keywords

neuromucoepidermoid carcinoma - bronchus resection - child

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