Swallowing of a dynamic tracheal stent: an unusual complication

Tuberk Toraks. 2007;55(1):92-4.

Abstract

Cicatricial tracheal stenoses are mainly related to iatrogenic injury as postintubation, posttracheotomy or postoperative. Advances in airway prosthetics have provided a variety of silicone stents and expandable metal stents as a therapeutic option for tracheal stenoses. Nowadays, dynamic tracheal stents are performed prevalently for the treatment of tracheal stenosis. Four major problems are currently associated with airway stents: Mucostasis, formation of granulation tissue, infection and migration. In this report, we present a case of swallowing a tracheal dynamic stent as an unusual complication of tracheal stents.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Foreign-Body Reaction / diagnosis*
  • Foreign-Body Reaction / diagnostic imaging
  • Foreign-Body Reaction / pathology
  • Humans
  • Iatrogenic Disease
  • Male
  • Radiography
  • Respiration, Artificial / adverse effects*
  • Respiratory Insufficiency / therapy
  • Stents / adverse effects*
  • Tracheoesophageal Fistula / diagnosis*
  • Tracheoesophageal Fistula / diagnostic imaging
  • Tracheoesophageal Fistula / pathology