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a An original chest X-ray is shown. b An enlarged X-ray with a high contrast shows the tracheal stent in place between the main bronchus and the main right bronchus
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Fig1
He had a medical history of limited-disease small cell lung cancer with tracheal stenosis; a tracheal stent procedure had been performed 8 years ago (Fig. 1).
Preoperative chest computed tomography (CT) scan shows that a part of the broken tracheal stent has penetrated into the esophagus
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Fig2
During the preoperative assessment, a computed tomography (CT) scan revealed that a part of the tracheal stent placed between the main bronchus and the main right bronchus had penetrated the esophagus (Fig. 2).
An endoscopic examination of the upper digestive tract shows part of the tracheal stent in the esophagus
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Endoscopic examination of the upper digestive tract revealed the part of the tracheal stent in the esophagus (Fig. 3).