A medical team in New York City says it has performed the first complete surgical transplant of a windpipe. The trachea is basically a tube that transports air to and from the lungs, so you might ...

Indore (Madhya Pradesh): In a remarkable medical achievement, doctors at Maharaja Yeshwantrao (MY) Hospital successfully ...

Adlai Lemus appears to be a happy baby boy. You wouldn't know by looking at the 11-month-old that he has a life-threatening disease. "You can't tell from the outside that there is anything wrong with ...

This case study is the first of its kind to document a successful technique to create a fully functional trachea and also report a rare type of malignant tumor in an adult's trachea, said Samer ...

Swedish authorities said Monday an Italian surgeon once hailed for pioneering windpipe surgery but later jailed for unethical experimental treatments can serve his sentence in Spain where he lives.

A tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF) occurs when a connection between the trachea (windpipe) and esophagus (the tube that connects the throat to the stomach) forms during fetal development before birth.