Fundamentals of airway surgery. - volume 28-3

This issue of 'Thoracic Surgery Clinics of North America', guest edited by Drs Jean Deslauriers, Farid Shamji, and Bill Nelems, is the second of two devoted to the fundamentals of airway surgery.

The editors have assembled expert authors to review the following topics: from open to bedside percutaneous tracheostomy; anterior mediastinal tracheostomy: past, present, and future; extended sleeve resections; bronchoplasties at the segmental level; challenges of carinal resection and reconstruction; carinal pneumonectomy; management of post-pneumonectomy broncho-pleural fistula: from thoracoplasty to trans-sternal closure; tracheal transplantation: state of the art and key role of blood supply in its success; autologous tracheal replacement; pathophysiology and predictors of bronchial complications after lung transplantation; and much more.