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 the majority of cases. They presented seven cases in their own series, including one that had plastic repair of a recurrent stricture.