Citation

Hamid UI, McGuigan JA, Jones JM. Ann. Thorac. Surg. 2011; 92(5): 1896-1898.

Affiliation

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Society of Thoracic Surgeons, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.04.085

PMID

22051292

Abstract

Survival after blunt neck trauma resulting in combined tracheal and esophageal injury is uncommon. We present the case of a young boy who sustained complete transection of the trachea and subtotal transection of the esophagus after a clothes line type injury.

Language: en