A rare cause of acute airway obstruction: tracheal malignant melanoma

Omer Faruk Demir; Omer Onal; Burcu Baran; Alperen Vural; Oguzhan Turan

doi:10.26663/cts.2022.017

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A rare cause of acute airway obstruction: tracheal malignant melanoma

Omer Faruk Demir¹,Omer Onal¹,Burcu Baran²,Alperen Vural³,Oguzhan Turan¹

Current Thoracic Surgery 2022;7(2):101-104. (29 July 2022)

¹Department of Thoracic Surgery, Erciyes University, Faculty of Medicine, Kayseri, Turkey
²Department of Respiratory Medicine, Erciyes University, Faculty of Medicine, Kayseri, Turkey
³Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Erciyes University, Faculty of Medicine, Kayseri, Turkey

DOI : 10.26663/cts.2022.017

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Tracheal tumors are quite rare, with an incidence of 2.6 per 1,000,000 persons. Tracheal malignant melanomas are one of the least common types among these tumors due to the lack of natural epithelial tissue of melanocytes. There is no optimal treatment method for tracheal malign melanomas because they have an aggressive nature, have limited life expectancy and occur very rarely. This paper discusses the case of and treatment methods fora patient who was initially suspected to have a foreign body aspiration because of presenting to hospital with acute airway obstruction.

Keywords : airway obstruction, tracheal malign melanoma, tracheal tumor