Redo Transsternal Tracheal Resection and Reconstruction: The Use of Uncommon Release Maneuvers | CTSNet
The patient is a seventy-one-year-old male with a history of Hurthle cell carcinoma who initially underwent thyroidectomy and central neck dissection, follow by radioactive iodine. He developed recurrence after 10 years with tracheal invasion, which was treated by tracheal resection via partial sternotomy and mediastinal lymph node dissection. Four years later, he developed a right paratracheal…