TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Overview of Benign and Malignant Disorders of the Upper Airways A1 - Karush, Justin M. A1 - Friedberg, Joseph S. A1 - Liptay, Michael J. A2 - Sugarbaker, David J. A2 - Bueno, Raphael A2 - Burt, Bryan M. A2 - Groth, Shawn S. A2 - Loor, Gabriel A2 - Wolf, Andrea S. A2 - Williams, Marcia A2 - Adams, Ann Y1 - 2020 N1 - T2 - Sugarbaker’s Adult Chest Surgery, 3e AB - Tracheobronchial disease represents a wide variety of pathologies and presents significant diagnostic and therapeutic challenges to practitioners. In part, this is due to the insidious onset of nonspecific clinical symptoms, which commonly lead to delays in definitive diagnosis and appropriate treatment. Additional challenges include the rarity of presentation, diverse pathological findings, and frequency of associated comorbidities. Also owing to the rarity of presentation, treatment algorithms are often nonstandardized and include surgical and interventional as well as systemic modalities. As a result, appropriate diagnosis and management necessitates expertise across multiple subspecialities. While the anatomy of the trachea itself is not complex, its relationship to surrounding structures in the neck and mediastinum mandates expert surgical knowledge and technique to optimize mobility and create a tension-free anastomosis when resection is indicated (Fig. 53-1). SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1170408777 ER -