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Ann Thorac Surg 2005;79:686-687
© 2005 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Case report

Tracheocele: Surgical and Thoracoscopic Findings

Shunsuke Endo, MDa,*, Noriko Saito, MDa, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, MDa, Yukio Sato, MDa, Yasunori Sohara, MDa

a Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Jichi Medical School, Minamikawachi-machi, Kawachi-gun, Tochigi, Japan

Accepted for publication August 28, 2003.

* Address reprint requests to Dr Endo, Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Jichi Medical School, Minamikawachi-machi, Kawachi-gun, Tochigi 329-0498, Japan
tcvshun{at}jichi.ac.jp

We report a rare case of tracheocele found incidentally on a chest computed tomographic scan of a 78-year-old woman undergoing left hemithyroidectomy. The tracheocele was removed, and our operative and thoracoscopic findings are reported herein. The causes and possible clinical implications of tracheocele are discussed.




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