Journal of Clinical Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery
The Busan, Ulsan, Gyeoungnam Branch of Korean Society of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
증례
갑상선 수술에서 확인된 기관 게실 1예
강대형1, 박효상1, 김성원1, 이강대1,*
Tracheal Divertiulum Discovered during Thyroid Surgery:A Case Report
Dae Hyoung Kang1, Hyo Sang Park1, Sung Won Kim1, Kang Dae Lee1,*
1Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Kosin University College of Medicine, Busan, Korea
*교신저자: 이강대, 602-702 부산광역시 서구 암남동 34 고신대학교 의과대학 이비인후과학교실 전화:(051) 990-6248·전송:(051) 245-8539 E-mail:
kdlee@ns.kosinmed.or.kr
© Copyright 2009 The Busan, Ulsan, Gyeoungnam Branch of Korean Society of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Received: Apr 29, 2009; Revised: Jul 22, 2009; Accepted: Aug 11, 2009
Published Online: May 31, 2020
ABSTRACT
Tracheal diverticulum is relatively rare. It results from congenital or acquired weakness of the tracheal wall. We experienced a case of tracheal diverticulum-an unexpected finding in computed tomography (CT)：61-year old male with suspicious papillary thyroid carcinoma in fine needle aspiration (FNAB) was admitted for total thyroidectomy. Neck CT finding was incidentally found right paratracheal air cyst in the thoracic inlet. The patient did not report coughing or any other symptom. It is important to identify anatomic relationship between tracheal diverticulm and recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) during thyroidectomy not to injure RLN. We report a case of posterolateral tracheal divertiulum with a review of the related literature. (J Clinical Otolaryngol 2009;20:264-267)
Keywords: 기관게실; 반회후두신경
Keywords: Tracheal diverticulum; Recurrent laryngeal nerve
