Tracheocele: an unusual cause of XXXX .

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EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES: Describe the clinical presentation and management of tracheoceles. STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective case review and review of the medical literature. RESULTS: A 56 year old female @entity1 presented with progressive @entity7364 and history of benign thyroid nodules. Flexible laryngoscopy revealed a severely paretic right true vocal cord. Computed tomography revealed a right sided air filled sac in the tracheoesophageal groove suspicious for causing compression of the right recurrent laryngeal nerve. The @entity1 underwent an elective right hemithyroidectomy and resection of the air filled sac. Post operative pathology of the air filled sax was consistent with a tracheocele. A laryngoscopy performed 6 months postoperatively demonstrated recovery of right cord function. CONCLUSIONS: Tracheoceles are an uncommon entity first described in 1846 by Rokitansky (1) with only a paucity of case reports in the literature describing the surgical management and treatment of this disease. Herein, we report a @entity1 who presented with @entity7364 from a tracheocele in the right tracheoesophageal groove who subsequently underwent surgical resection ultimately improving vocal cord function.
