slide tracheoplasty

slide tracheoplasty
surgical treatment of tracheal stenosis by dividing the stenosis at the midpoint, incising the segments vertically on opposite anterior and posterior surfaces, and sliding the segments together to create an anastomosis with a widened lumen.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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  • tracheoplasty — Plastic surgery of the trachea. [tracheo + G. plastos, formed] slide t. an operation for the repair of long tracheal stenosis in which anterior and posterior sliding flaps of tracheal …   Medical dictionary

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