Bronchial transection resulting from trivial blunt chest trauma.
A 3-year-old boy with a trivial blunt chest injury presented with a massive bronchopleural leak without any hilar vascular injury. On emergency exploration he had a complete transection of the right main bronchus. An end-to-end anastomosis of the transected bronchial ends was performed. At 1-month clinical and radiologic follow-up, the anastomosis had healed well.
Reddy
Sreedhar
S
Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and General Hospital, Sion, Mumbai, India.
Davierwala
Piroze
P
Kumar
Pawan
P
Thakur
Nityanand
N
Babu
Packirisamy
P
Tendolkar
Anil
A
D001980:Bronchi / Q000293:injuries* / Q000601:surgery; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D013898:Thoracic Injuries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D014949:Wounds, Nonpenetrating / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery