Slide cricotracheoplasty in an infant

Abstract

Slide tracheoplasty was first described in 1989 by Tsang and colleagues and has now become the gold standard to treat long-segment tracheal stenosis. This technique presents several advantages: no graft material is required, it allows satisfactory enlargement of the trachea, and it does not hinder the functional growth of the trachea. 2,3 Recently, our team has reported the association of tracheal resection and slide tracheoplasty to manage an infant presenting with tracheal hypoplasia associated to a partial critical stenosis. 4 However, surgical management of a tracheal hyp oplasia extending up to the cricoid is still quite challenging. We therefore describe a variant of the slide tracheoplasty that allowed us to treat this difficult case.