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The use of t-tube cholangiocatheter stents in the treatment of pediatric tracheomalacia
Seyed Mohammad Vahid Hosseini1, Mohammad Zarenezhad2, Babak Sabet3, Mehrdad Malek Shoar4, Gholamreza Kangari2
1 Department of Pediatric Surgery and Urology, Hormozgan and Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
2 Department of Gastroenterohepatology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences and Member of Legal Medicine Research Center, Legal Medicine Organization, Tehran, Iran
3 Department of Gastroenterohepatology Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
4 Department of Anesthesialogy, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran
Correspondence Address:
Seyed Mohammad Vahid Hosseini
Sick Hospital Children of Bandar
Iran
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
DOI: 10.4103/2006-8808.118632
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Tracheomalacia is a common disorder in neonate and infants, which can lead to life-threatening airway occlusion, because of external pressure or intrinsic defect of tracheobroncial cartilage. Aortopexy and Stents are effective in relieving tracheomalacia in the latter patients. In this case we are to show how t-tube cholangiocatheter is effective and easy available in sever tracheomalacia neonates with intrinsic defect. It can be easily replaced and causes no infection, erosion, or sever complication in 9 months period. |
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