Stricture of a Bronchus

Rupture of bronchus with recurrent stricture following primary anastomosis.

In April, 1959, at the annual meeting of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, Hood and Sloan presented an analysis of all cases of injuries of the trachea and major bronchi since the review by Kinsella in 1947. They noted that pulmonary resection had been utilized far too often in recent years and emphasized that repair of such injuries without sacrifice of lung tissue is feasible in ...

Bronchus tube and bronchus blocker.

A new bronchus clamp.

Bronchus clamps for use in lung resection have never been entirely satisfactory. The very large number of models available make this plain. When lung resection presents no problems almost any model of bronchus clamp is suitable. In a technically difficult situation all have shortcomings. The basic requirements of a bronchus clamp are: 1. It must be easy to pass with the minimum of dissection of...

Solitary Papilloma of a Bronchus.

The cause of asthmatic attacks in a middle-aged man was disclosed and the relief of his symptoms achieved at one and the same time when he coughed up a tumour which proved to be a solitary bronchial papilloma. The pedicle of the tumour had ruptured as the result of infarction due to thrombosis in stromal blood vessels. Asthmatic attacks, stromal blood vessel thrombosis, and the coughing up of t...

Leiomyoma of the bronchus.

The patient was a housewife aged 57 years. In 1942 she suffered from severe metrorrhagia stated to be caused by uterine fibroids. A subtotal hysterectomy was performed in a country hospital, but the pathological details of this are not available. Since this operation and until the onset of the illness to be described, the patient was in excellent health. In July 1949, whilst a front-seat passen...