Esophageal polyp as a posterior mediastinal mass: Intraoperative dynamic airway obstruction requiring emergency tracheostomy

Esophageal polyp as a posterior mediastinal mass: Intraoperative dynamic airway obstruction requiring emergency tracheostomy

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Anesthesia in the presence of a mediastinal mass is difficult and challenging as the mass can involve or duospiritalis.com compress the heart, great vessels, tracheo-bronchial tree and the surrounding structures.We describe a case of severe tracheo-bronchial obstruction requiring emergency tracheostomy during the intraoperative period after an uneventful induction whole wheat phyllo dough of anesthesia in a patient with a large esophageal polyp presenting as a posterior mediastinal mass.