Treatments for complications of tracheal sleeve resection for papillary thyroid carcinoma with tracheal invasion.

Abstract

OBJECTIVE:

To evaluate the treatment, prognosis, and complications of differentiated thyroid carcinoma with tracheal invasion. We report our outcomes from a single center using a tracheal sleeve resection.

PATIENTS AND METHODS:

Retrospective analysis of clinicopathological data on tracheal sleeve resection in patients with thyroid cancer and accompanying tracheal invasion from January 2009 to July 2012. The postoperative complications were analyzed and the literature was reviewed.

RESULTS:

Nineteen patients with thyroid carcinoma and accompanying tracheal invasion underwent tracheal sleeve resection followed by end-to-end anastomosis. The median survival time was 22 months. Five patients (5/19) developed postoperative complications. The major complications included bilateral recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis (2 cases), tracheal anastomotic stenosis (1 case), esophageal fistula (2 cases), and anastomotic dehiscence (2 cases). The treatment for these complications included partial posterior cordectomy by CO₂ laser for bilateral recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis; CO₂ laser treatment followed by postoperative external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) (20 Gy/10 times) for tracheal anastomotic stenosis, femoral anterior dissociative flap to repair esophageal fistula, and a T-tube positioned in the wound in cases of anastomotic dehiscence.

CONCLUSIONS:

Tracheal sleeve resection remain a safe option with less morbidity and perioperative complications for the management of patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma accompanied by intratracheal invasion.

• Authors: S Lin, H Huang, X Liu, Q Li, A Yang, Q Zhang, Z Guo, Y Chen
• Journal: European journal of surgical oncology : the journal of the European Society of Surgical Oncology and the British Association of Surgical Oncology (Eur J Surg Oncol) Vol. 40 Issue 2 Pg. 176-81 (Feb 2014) ISSN: 1532-2157 [Electronic] England
• PMID: 24388407 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
• Copyright: Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Topics

• Adult
• Aged
• Anastomosis, Surgical
• Carcinoma (mortality, pathology, surgery)
• Carcinoma, Papillary
• Female
• Humans
• Laryngectomy
• Laser Therapy
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Postoperative Complications (epidemiology)
• Prognosis
• Retrospective Studies
• Thyroid Cancer, Papillary
• Thyroid Neoplasms (mortality, pathology, surgery)
• Trachea (surgery)
• Tracheal Neoplasms (mortality, secondary, surgery)
• Tracheal Stenosis (epidemiology, radiotherapy, surgery)
• Tracheoesophageal Fistula (epidemiology, surgery)
• Treatment Outcome
• Vocal Cord Paralysis (epidemiology, surgery)