Trachea Anatomy. The trachea is part of the lower respiratory tract, ... (larynx) and runs down the center of the chest behind the breast bone (sternum) in front of the esophagus.

This time, doctors performed a CT scan, which showed a chicken vertebra bone in the right "mainstem bronchus," the airway that branches off from the trachea into the lung.An area in the man's ...

Macchiarini made headlines in 2008 when he replaced the windpipe of Claudia Castillo, a Spanish woman, with a trachea taken from a cadaver donor. In that case and about nine operations since then ...