Reversible Poststenotic Bronchiectasis

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RUPTURE of one of the major bronchi is now regarded as a relatively frequent complication of severe closed thoracic trauma.1 Although the common complications of this type of injury, including uncontrolled pneumothorax with or without hemothorax and progressive mediastinal and subcutaneous emphysema, are well recognized, a significant group of injuries remains in which fracture of the bronchial cartilage will occur without extensive leakage of air, presumably because the mucosa and membranous wall of the bronchus remain intact or because such tears will become sealed by adjacent structures. Such a complication probably occurs in some crushing chest wounds, and the patient . . .

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