{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,26]],"date-time":"2026-08-26T17:21:11Z","timestamp":1787764871288,"version":"build-2784847793"},"reference-count":19,"publisher":"Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)","issue":"10","content-domain":{"domain":["lww.com","ovid.com"],"crossmark-restriction":true},"short-container-title":[],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2023,10]]},"abstract":"<jats:title>\n                    A\n                    <jats:sc>BSTRACT<\/jats:sc>\n                  <\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Operating on a huge and long-standing goiter is challenging to the surgeon and anesthetist because of the possibility of tracheomalacia and collapse of the tracheal rings after extubation. We report our innovation of tenting the trachea to the skin using sutures (passed through the strap and sternocleidomastoid muscles) to prevent post-thyroidectomy tracheomalacia.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.4103\/njcp.njcp_472_22","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,10,31]],"date-time":"2023-10-31T00:24:25Z","timestamp":1698711865000},"page":"1579-1583","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1097\/lww.0000000000001000","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["A Case Report of Tracheal Tenting to the Skin: An Option to Tracheostomy for Post-Thyroidectomy Tracheomalacia"],"prefix":"10.4103","volume":"26","author":[{"given":"O","family":"Andrew","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Surgery, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Edo State, Nigeria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"O","family":"Folorunsho","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anaesthesia, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Edo State, Nigeria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"B","family":"Faustina","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of ENT, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Edo State, Nigeria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"EJ","family":"Alufohai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Joe Alufohai Medical Centre, Sabongida-Ora, Edo State, Nigeria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"D","family":"Andrew","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Surgery, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State, Nigeria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"276","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,10,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"R1-20240907","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"603","DOI":"10.1213\/01.ANE.0000122634.69923.67","article-title":"Prediction of difficult tracheal intubation in thyroid surgery","volume":"99","author":"Bouaggad","year":"2004","journal-title":"Anesth Analg"},{"key":"R2-20240907","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1097","DOI":"10.4103\/aer.AER_86_16","article-title":"Airway considerations in case of a large multinodular goitre","volume":"11","author":"Kaur","year":"2017","journal-title":"Anesth Essays Res"},{"key":"R3-20240907","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"96","DOI":"10.5005\/jp-journals-10002-1145","article-title":"Management of post-thyroidectomy tracheomalacia","volume":"6","author":"Mayilvaganan","year":"2014","journal-title":"World J Endoc Surg"},{"key":"R4-20240907","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"163","DOI":"10.4103\/MJBL.MJBL_13_19","article-title":"Suturing of tracheomalatic rings complicating long-standing huge goitres to adjacent structures","volume":"16","author":"Al-Jenabi","year":"2019","journal-title":"Med J Babylon"},{"key":"R5-20240907","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"113","DOI":"10.1097\/MCP.0b013e328321832d","article-title":"Review of adult tracheomalacia and its relationship with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease","volume":"15","author":"Kandaswamy","year":"2009","journal-title":"Curr Opin Pulm Med"},{"key":"R6-20240907","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"340","DOI":"10.1378\/chest.68.3.340","article-title":"Acquired tracheomalacia:Aetiology and differential diagnosis","volume":"68","author":"Feist","year":"1975","journal-title":"Chest"},{"key":"R7-20240907","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1570","DOI":"10.1007\/s002680010279","article-title":"Upper airway obstruction in patients with goitre studies by flow-volume loops and effect of thyroidectomy","volume":"24","author":"Thusoo","year":"2000","journal-title":"World J Surg"},{"key":"R8-20240907","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"903","DOI":"10.1093\/bja\/aer062","article-title":"Post-thyroidectomy tracheomalacia:Minimal risk despite significant tracheal compression","volume":"106","author":"Findlay","year":"2011","journal-title":"Br J Anaesth"},{"key":"R9-20240907","first-page":"4","article-title":"Airway complications and outcome after thyroidectomy in Ibadan:A 15-year review","volume":"8","author":"Ayandipo","year":"2016","journal-title":"Arch Med"},{"key":"R10-20240907","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"755","DOI":"10.1007\/s00268-012-1447-x","article-title":"Clinicopathological profile, airway management, and outcome in huge multinodular goitres:An institutional experience from an endemic goitre region","volume":"36","author":"Agarwal","year":"2012","journal-title":"World J Surg"},{"key":"R11-20240907","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"59","DOI":"10.4103\/njs.NJS_31_19","article-title":"\u201cTracheomalacia after thyroidectomy,\u201dDoes it truly exist?","volume":"26","author":"Valizadeh","year":"2020","journal-title":"Niger J Surg"},{"key":"R12-20240907","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"51","DOI":"10.1016\/j.thorsurg.2013.09.003","article-title":"Tracheomalacia","volume":"24","author":"Kugler","year":"2014","journal-title":"Thorac Surg Clin"},{"key":"R13-20240907","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"88","DOI":"10.1046\/j.1365-2168.1999.00978.x","article-title":"Respiratory complications after thyroidectomy and the need for tracheostomy in patients with a large goitre","volume":"86","author":"Abdel Rahim","year":"1999","journal-title":"Br J Surg"},{"key":"R14-20240907","first-page":"328","article-title":"Traheomalacia:A rare complication after thyroidectomy","volume":"52","author":"Tripathi","year":"2008","journal-title":"Indian J Anaesth"},{"key":"R15-20240907","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"832","DOI":"10.1007\/s00268-006-0565-8","article-title":"High incidence of tracheomalacia in longstanding goitres:Experience from an endemic goitre region","volume":"31","author":"Agarwal","year":"2007","journal-title":"World J Surg"},{"key":"R16-20240907","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1029","DOI":"10.1007\/s12630-011-9570-y","article-title":"Management of a patient with tracheomalacia and supraglottic obstruction after thyroid surgery","volume":"58","author":"Lee","year":"2011","journal-title":"Can J Anaesth"},{"key":"R17-20240907","first-page":"58","article-title":"Treatment of tracheomalacia with Palmaz stent:A case report","volume":"47","author":"Iran","year":"2005","journal-title":"Folia Med (Plov div)"},{"key":"R18-20240907","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1764","DOI":"10.21037\/apm-19-552","article-title":"Prolonged endotracheal intubation:A feasible option for tracheomalacia after retrosternal goitre surgery","volume":"9","author":"Ren","year":"2020","journal-title":"Ann Palliat Med"},{"key":"R19-20240907","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"21","DOI":"10.1186\/s13019-019-0840-z","article-title":"Tracheal suspension with autogenous rib cartilage in a patient with severe tracheomalacia","volume":"14","author":"Xu","year":"2019","journal-title":"J Cardiothorac Surg"}],"container-title":["Nigerian Journal of Clinical Practice"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/www.ovid.com\/10.4103\/njcp.njcp_472_22","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,26]],"date-time":"2026-08-26T16:48:42Z","timestamp":1787762922000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/www.ovid.com\/10.4103\/njcp.njcp_472_22"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2023,10]]},"references-count":19,"journal-issue":{"issue":"10","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2023]]}},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4103\/njcp.njcp_472_22","relation":{},"ISSN":["1119-3077","2229-7731"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1119-3077","type":"print"},{"value":"2229-7731","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2023,10]]},"assertion":[{"value":"2022-07-19","name":"received","label":"Received","group":{"name":"publication_history","label":"Publication History"}},{"value":"2023-09-18","name":"accepted","label":"Accepted","group":{"name":"publication_history","label":"Publication History"}}]}}