Narasannaiah Arun H, Anwar Ali Z, Pandey Amit, Belagavi Doddabasappa, Althaf Syed, Reddy S V, Harsha Raghavendra, Jain Siddharth, Ali Mohammed A, Batra Pratham
Surgical Oncology, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bangalore, IND.
Medical Oncology, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bangalore, IND.
Cureus. 2022 Feb 24;14(2):e22568. doi: 10.7759/cureus.22568. eCollection 2022 Feb.
Tracheal length and lung anatomy have been rarely studied; however, the anatomy of the lung has been shown to vary significantly. Moreover, the surgery regarding trachea are few, and hence the surgeons do not have extensive experience in the trachea.
We aimed to study the variations of the lung anatomy and the relation between tracheal length and body height in the Indian population.
This is an observational study to observe the tracheal length in relation to body height and sex and gross morphological anatomy of the lung in 70 cadavers. The data was collected from the forensic department of Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute (BMCRI), and further analysis was done at Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology.
Deviation from normal lung morphology was seen in 37.86% of the specimens studied. The tracheal length (average, 9.97 cm) correlated with the body length (average, 147.02 cm) with a Pearson coefficient of 0.806 (p value=0.001) Conclusion: The study of lung fissure morphology guides clinicians in understanding and planning lung disease treatment, especially lobectomy/segmentectomy surgeries. The information of the average length of the trachea with respect to body height in a given ethnicity will help during endotracheal intubation and tracheal surgical planning.
气管长度和肺部解剖结构鲜有研究；然而，已表明肺部解剖结构存在显著差异。此外，有关气管的手术较少，因此外科医生在气管方面没有丰富的经验。
我们旨在研究印度人群肺部解剖结构的变异以及气管长度与身高之间的关系。
这是一项观察性研究，观察70具尸体中气管长度与身高、性别的关系以及肺部大体形态解剖结构。数据收集自班加罗尔医学院和研究所（BMCRI）法医科，并在基德瓦伊纪念肿瘤研究所进行进一步分析。
在所研究的标本中，37.86%出现了与正常肺部形态的偏差。气管长度（平均9.97厘米）与体长（平均147.02厘米）相关，皮尔逊系数为0.806（p值 = 0.001）。结论：肺裂形态的研究有助于临床医生理解和规划肺部疾病的治疗，尤其是肺叶切除术/肺段切除术。特定种族中气管平均长度相对于身高的信息将有助于气管插管和气管手术规划。
