Use of a Silicone T-tube for Management of a Tracheal Injury in a Patient with Cervical Blunt Trauma

Japanese Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 541-544

  Shimizu, Junzo ^a   Hirano, Yasumitsu ^a   Ishida, Yoshinori ^a   Kinoshita, Takahiro ^a   Tatsuzawa, Yasuhiko ^a   Kawaura, Yukimitsu ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cervical blunt trauma; Silicone T tube; Tracheal injury; Tracheal stent therapy

Indexed keywords

SILICONE;

AGED; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; FALLING; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; NECK INJURY; STENT; T TUBE; TRACHEA INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ARTICLE; INJURY; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA; TRACHEA; TRACHEOSTOMY;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; NECK INJURIES; STENTS; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA; TRACHEA; TRACHEOSTOMY; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0442279041     PISSN: 13444964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11748-003-0120-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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