Bronchoscopy showed a narrowed left main bronchus apparently due to tumour compression.
The new section of trachea was then transplanted into the left main bronchus of the patient.
Involves main bronchus.
The right main bronchus is wider, shorter, and more vertical than the left main bronchus.
After four days of seeding, the graft was used to replace the patient's left main bronchus.
In addition to these blood vessels, the aortic arch crosses the left main bronchus.
He also reported the removal of a pen cover from the right main bronchus of a 7-year-old girl through a tracheotomy in 1903.
The injury is more common in the right main bronchus than the left, possibly because the former is near vertebrae, which may injure it.
Also, the aorta and other tissues in the mid chest that surround the left main bronchus may protect it.
Cancer has spread to the main bronchus and is at least 2 centimeters below where the trachea joins the bronchus.