[Left bronchial resection with bronchial anastomosis in a patient with posttraumatic bronchial stenosis]

We present the case of a 25 year old patient, who suffered a car accident two month before he came to our hospital. At that moment, he had multiple costal fractures and left haemothorax, resolved by surgical means. At the actual presentation: dullness in the inferior half of left hemithorax, abolished breath sounds at this level. Radiologic--left lung atelectasis, bronchoscopic examination revealed--complete stenosis of the main left bronchus, while computer tomography has shown complete obstruction of the main left bronchus, at 1.7-2 cm from the carina. Fibrosis after posttraumatic bronchial disruption was the cause of the stenosis. Surgical treatment was the choice, with segmental resection of the main left bronchus and reanastomosis; the permeability was maintained on a month after the surgical intervention.