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The management of a neonate with a known difficult airway is a challenge to any clinician. We report a four-day-old neonate with a known difficult airway, who presented to us for rigid bronchoscopy. We used an innovative, economical and easily available adult central venous line guidewire to secure the airway and reintubate the child.
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0.5). However, when the flexible bronchoscope was used, foreign bodies dropped into the esophagus in 5 patients. Conclusion The characteristic manifestations was not frequent in the patients with larynx and trachea foreign bodies.History of aspiration was the most sensitive diagnostic tool. The plain chest radiography and fluoroscopy had low positive finding.Therefore, fiberoptic bronchoscopic examination should be performed timely.However, for extraction of foreign bodies, rigid bronchoscope would be the first choice.
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BACKGROUND: Tracheal hamartoma is a very rare cause of upper airway obstruction. Its clinical features can mimic medical conditions, such as bronchial asthma, chronic bronchitis, and so on. CASE: This report presents the case of a 65 year old man whose major symptom was dyspnea. We found a tumor in his distal tracheal lumen, and the tumor was removed with success using rigid bronchoscope. The tumor was histologically proven to be a hamartoma, and his symptoms were much improved. CONCLUSION: It is important to distinguish it from other conditions because medical management is often not helpful. surgical correction-with or without thoracotomy-is inevitable.