Pediatric tracheal surgery.

Pediatric tracheal surgery is uncommon, and few centers have enough experience to make meaningful conclusions about treatment. Short-segment congenital tracheal stenosis is treated by tracheal resection, whereas long-segment stenosis is treated by either augmentation tracheoplasty or slide tracheoplasty (the author's preferred approach). Tracheomalacia is treated most commonly by aortopexy. Postintubation tracheal stenosis is usually treated by tracheal (or laryngotracheal) resection.