Sequelæ of Tracheotomy Occurring after Closure of the Tracheal Wound
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Statements have recently appeared in various medical journals that serious lesions may occur as a result of the operation of tracheotomy without manifesting their presence till some time after the wound has healed. The details given are very meagre, but they indicate that the most important of these late sequelae are conditions causing stenosis of the tracheal lumen. My attention was first drawn to them by a case of tracheal stenosis which
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