Meanings of tracheal bronchus in English

Most clinicians are unfamiliar with the anatomy of a right upper lobe that includes a tracheal bronchus.

Complete tracheal rings were present in all patients as an associated lesion and right upper lobe tracheal bronchus in 3 patients.

We describe the case of an adult patient with a central right upper lobe carcinoid tumor and a concurrent tracheal bronchus malformation.

Preoperative 3D imaging of the tracheal bronchus and its related vessels familiarized us with the anatomy of this patient before the operation.

We performed successful surgery for lung cancer after confirming the anatomical abnormality of a tracheal bronchus by three-dimensional multidetector-row computed tomography (3D-MDCT) bronchography and angiography.

Tracheal bronchus is unusual, and right upper lobectomy for lung cancer would rarely be performed in a patient with a tracheal bronchus.