Trauma Laringo Tracheale Aperto: Trattamento Di Un Caso Di Nostra Osservazione

The reported case is a further confinnation that the laryngotracheal traurnas nust be included in the clìnical picture of polytraurnatism caused by enuironrnental risk factors. The authors relate the clinical case of a young patient aniued to their obseruation after a road accident, in consequence of which he had suffered the fracture of the right heni-jau and an open laryngeal traurrza a.t the left tbyroid bemi+hield's leael, as well as the dislocation of the *ico-arytenoid articulation and injuries to the left uocal-cord proper. A fint contusiue body had reached his lau, which acted as a protectioe stntctute of the lnryngo-tracheal area; a second body bad, with a sagittal direction, reached the larynx causing the fracture of the left tbyroid lanina and the injury of the hemilarynx's soft tissues on the same sid.e. The authors elnphasize the possibility that the intemal ìniuries to the larynx are of an iatrogenic nature, uiz. caused by the introduction of a tracheal cannula into the traumatic hole in the larynx.