Tracheal rupture after endotracheal intubation: Experience with management in 13 cases

Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 51-56

  Sippel, M ^a   Putensen, C ^a   Hirner, A ^a   Wolff, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endotracheal tube; Intubation; Mediastinitis; Tracheal rupture

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN GLUE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; SUTURE MATERIAL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMAN; LACERATION; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MEDIASTINUM DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RARE DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORACOTOMY; TRACHEA INJURY; TRACHEA RECONSTRUCTION; TRACHEA RUPTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRONCHOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RUPTURE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THORACOTOMY; TRACHEA; TRACHEAL DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 32544442489     PISSN: 01716425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-865917     Document Type: Article

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