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Nonsurgical treatment of a severe tracheal rupture after endotracheal intubation
R Zettl1, C Waydhas, P Biberthaler
1Department of Surgery, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.
Critical Care Medicine
|April 13, 1999
Abstract
Objective:
We report the case of an 82-yr-old woman with a large complete longitudinal tracheal rupture, following endotracheal intubation. The patient was treated nonoperatively with excellent outcome. The diagnostic and therapeutic course as well as other therapeutic options are discussed.