Author(s)

Hale Aslan, Sedat Öztürkcan, Erdem Eren, Mehmet Sinan Başoğlu, Murat Songu, Erkan Kulduk, Ahmet Erdem Kılavuz, Hüseyin Katılmış

Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, ?zmir Katip ?elebi Universty Atatürk Research and Training Hospital, ?zmir, Turkey.

Introduction: For tracheal stenosis, tracheal resection and anastomosis is widely considered the treatment of choice. However, this surgical approach is not feasible when the glottis and subglottis are involved or in patients with a poor general condition and tracheal stents are a plausible means of providing a permanent or temporary airway opening. Objectives: Evaluate the features and the results of patients with Montgomery T-tube in tracheal stenosis. Methods: Fifteen patients with Myer-Cotton grades 2-3 circular cicatricial tracheal stenosis who received a Montgomery T-tube between 2002-2011 were analyzed in terms of age, gender, etiology, duration of intubation, location and size of the stenotic segment on computed tomography(CT), follow-up time with the T-tube, the complications that occurred after T-tube removed and additional tracheal surgery. Conclusion: A T-tube can be applied in tracheal stenosis at the first treatment before attempting surgery. The patients should be closely followed-up due to the possibility of re-stenosis and other complications.

Tracheal Stenosis; Montgomery T-Tube; Complications

Aslan, H. , Öztürkcan, S. , Eren, E. , Başoğlu, M. , Songu, M. , Kulduk, E. , Kılavuz, A. and Katılmış, H. (2013) Results of Montgomery T-Tube in Primary Treatment of Laryngotracheal Stenosis. International Journal of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, 2, 151-155. doi: 10.4236/ijohns.2013.25033.