Post-Intubation Tracheal Stenosis: Analysis of 250 Operated Cases and the Legacy of Professor Vicente Forte
VICENTE FORTE, ANDRE MIOTTO, RODRIGO CAETANO DE SOUZA, MARIO CLAUDIO GHEFTER, PETRUCIO ABRANTES SARMENTO, MARIA ALENITA DE OLIVEIRA, JAQUELINA SONOE OTA ARAKAK, JOAO ALESSIO PERFEITOI · 2026
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Vicente Forte and co-authors analyze two hundred fifty operated cases of windpipe narrowing after intubation, alongside the legacy of the senior surgeon whose name the paper honors. The 2026 article opens with his life. Born in Sao Paulo in 1937, he trained as a thoracic surgeon. He was drawn to tracheal work after watching a young patient told to live with a breathing tube for good.
That patient later became his friend and was freed from the tube by his surgery. The paper pairs this career story with a series of two hundred fifty operations for the narrowing that long breathing tubes can scar into the windpipe. Colleagues and former trainees across Brazilian centers contribute the cases. The authors present the series as both data and tribute to a surgeon who refused easy limits.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | VICENTE FORTE, ANDRE MIOTTO, RODRIGO CAETANO DE SOUZA, MARIO CLAUDIO GHEFTER, PETRUCIO ABRANTES SARMENTO, MARIA ALENITA DE OLIVEIRA, JAQUELINA SONOE OTA ARAKAK, JOAO ALESSIO PERFEITOI |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 25 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |