Lesión traqueal después de tiroidectomía. Reporte de caso y revisión de la literatura

The incidence of complications during thyroidectomy is approximately 0-5-4% and tracheal injury associated with thyroidectomy occurs in 0.06%. A 48-year-old woman diagnosed with papillary carcinoma of the thyroid, right cervical nodule compatible with metastasis. Total thyroi - dectomy was performed, modified radical bilateral cervical resection, with a combined approach by sterenotomy and post surgical mediastinitis, where tracheal injury was produced and later there was infection at the surgery site that required re-intervention due to sternotomy dehiscence. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the importance of diagnosing in a timely manner and establishing an adequate treatment to avoid complications.