STRICTURE OF THORACIC TRACHEA FOLLOWING CLOSED CHEST INJURIES

The Management of Closed Chest Injuries.

From Grecian days up to modern times serious penetrating and other injuries of the chest have resulted, almost without exception, in the death of the injured person with the physician or surgeon standing by helplessly. Medical historywas made and recorded whenever a patient with severe chest injury recovered and these cases seemed mostly to be chest wall injuries with lung prolapse. Pare, that ...

Treatment of respiratory failure following chest injuries.

Traumatic chylothorax following a closed chest injury.

Two days later he felt discomfort in the chest and a skiagram showed re-accumulation of fluid in the right pleural cavity, and obliteration of the left costo-phrenic angle. Bilateral pleural drainage tubes were inserted and 3300 ml. of thin, whitish fluid on the right side, and 800 ml. of blood stained fluid on the left side were obtained on the first day. The left sided tube drained minimal am...

Meatal Stricture Following Neonatal Circumcision

Introduction  Circumcision is the most widely practised surgical procedure in the world. One sixth of the male popuiation have a ritual circumcision. The procedure was formerly exclusively per­formed by lay practitioners, jewish rabbis and barbers with physicians playing no role in the performance and it was a purely religious rite up to the late 19th Century.  Abraham apparently first advoca...

Pneumocephalus Following Thoracic Surgery with Posterior Chest Wall Resection

Pneumocephalus can be seen after head injury with fracture of the skull-base or in cerebral neoplasm, infection, or after intracranial or spinal surgery. We report on a 69-year-old male patient with pneumocephalus after right-sided lobectomy and en bloc resection of the chest wall for non-small-cell lung cancer. Postoperatively, the patient showed a reduced vigilance level with no response to p...