Incidental finding of tracheal bronchus complicating the anesthetic management of a left video-assisted thoracoscopic procedure

• Main Authors: Shvetank Agarwal (Author), Mark A Banks (Author), Sanjeev Dalela (Author), William B Bates (Author), Manuel R Castresana (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Congenital abnormalities of the large airways are uncommon, but may occasionally pose significant difficulties for anesthesiologists. The tracheal bronchus is an anatomical variant in which an accessory bronchus originates directly from the trachea rather than distal to the carina, as a takeoff from...