TY - JOUR AU - Carretta, Angelo AU - Ciriaco, Paola AU - Bandiera, Alessandro AU - Muriana, Piergiorgio AU - Arrigoni, Gianluigi AU - Negri, Giampiero PY - 2020/03/12 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Therapeutic strategy for tracheal chondrosarcoma: report of two cases JF - Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease JA - Monaldi Arch Chest Dis VL - 90 IS - 1 SE - Pneumology - Case Reports DO - 10.4081/monaldi.2020.1223 UR - https://www.monaldi-archives.org/macd/article/view/1223 SP - AB - <p>Primary chondrosarcoma of the trachea is an extremely rare tumor. We report two cases of tracheal chondrosarcoma describing the role of surgical and conservative treatment. Endoscopic treatment with rigid bronchoscopy was performed in both patients to restore airway patency and obtain histological specimens for diagnosis. One of the patients subsequently underwent successful tracheal resection and reconstruction. The other patient, who had a contraindication to surgical treatment due to associated diseases underwent iterative endoscopic LASER treatment and is alive three years after the first diagnosis. Surgical treatment remains the treatment of choice of tracheal chondrosarcoma. When surgery is contraindicated endoscopic treatment may allow relatively longterm survival due to the slow growth of these tumors.</p> ER -