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Tumoral and non-tumoral trachea stenoses: evaluation with three-dimensional CT and virtual bronchoscopy

Efstratios N Koletsis1 email, Christine Kalogeropoulou2 email, Eleni Prodromaki3 email, George C Kagadis4 email, Konstantinos Katsanos2 email, Konstantinos Spiropoulos3 email, Theodore Petsas2 email, George C Nikiforidis4 email and Dimitris Dougenis1 email

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Patras, Greece

Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, University of Patras, Greece

Department of Pneumonology, School of Medicine, University of Patras, Greece

Department of Medical Physics, School of Medicine, University of Patras, Greece

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Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2007, 2:18doi:10.1186/1749-8090-2-18

Published: 12 April 2007

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VE movie of a tracheal tumor causing severe airway obstruction. The video file provided describes the intraluminal tracheal tumor causing the severe airway obstruction of Figure 1. Note the excellent depiction of the main stem bronchi as well as the detailed description of the tracheal tumor both proximally and distally to the lesion.

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