Percutaneous dilatational tracheotomy
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Tracheal flap after percutaneous dilatational tracheotomy.
A 66-YR-OLD male patient developed expiratory stridor shortly after decannulation. Bronchoscopy showed, at the stoma site, a large flap (fig. A and B, arrows) that moved synchronously with the respiratory cycle and obstructed more than 80% of the lumen during expiration (fig. B). The reinsertion of the tracheotomy tube trapped the flap between the tube itself and the anterior tracheal wall, and...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0175-3851,1435-1420
DOI: 10.1007/s003900050130