Traumatic Bronchial Rupture with Plastic Repair
- 23 January 1958
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 258 (4) , 160-164
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm195801232580402
Abstract
RUPTURE of the main bronchus, not long ago considered rare, is now relatively common. The augmented prevalence may in part be due to improved diagnosis but also is a result of the increasing number of automobile accidents. Kinsella and Johnsrud,1 in a summary of the literature, found that 38 cases had been reported up to 1947. They added 2 cases of their own. In only 2 had successful repair of a bronchus been accomplished. These were reported in 1945 by Sanger2 and involved immediate suture of bronchial tears produced by shell fragments. It is interesting that these are the only . . .Keywords
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