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To the Editor: The Image in Clinical Medicine by Doerfler and Naidich (Dec. 19 issue)¹ reminded me of the surgical repair of three cases of tracheal stenosis I reported in 1970.² The technique my colleagues and I used, approaching the lesion from the neck in the manner of Grillo, differed from theirs.³ If they had used a neck approach instead of a thoracotomy, I wonder whether the recurrent-nerve injury might not have occurred. Before undergoing surgical repair, our patients had been treated with repeated bronchoscopy, because we did not think tracheal resection was feasible. We were also concerned that the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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