Tracheoesophageal Injury Following Gunshot Wound to the Chest: A Case Report
Eliseo A. Gonzalez-Sanchez, Dario E. Medina-Muñoz, Manuel F. Bermea-Caldelas, Marco A Hernández Guedea, Gerardo E Muñoz-Maldonado · 2025
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Description
A gunshot that tears both the windpipe and the food pipe is the subject of a 2025 case report by Eliseo A. Gonzalez-Sanchez and co-authors. Such chest wounds are very rare and often fatal, and they demand fast airway and surgical action.
The patient was a forty-six-year-old man with a wound that cut eighty percent of his chest windpipe and pierced his food pipe. He arrived with severe trouble breathing and widespread air under the skin. Surgeons opened his chest bone to repair the windpipe, and a heart stop during surgery forced an emergency side opening for direct heart massage. The food pipe was patched with muscle. He left the breathing machine on day three and went home ten days after surgery.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Eliseo A. Gonzalez-Sanchez, Dario E. Medina-Muñoz, Manuel F. Bermea-Caldelas, Marco A Hernández Guedea, Gerardo E Muñoz-Maldonado |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 13 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |