{"title":"Endotracheal repair of an iatrogenic tracheal laceration in a COVID-19 patient scheduled for surgical tracheostomy: a case report","authors":"Kenan Öztürk, Michael Westhoff, Stefan Welter","doi":"10.21037/ccts-21-27","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Background: To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of a tracheal membrane laceration (TML) repair in a frail COVID-19 patient requiring long term ventilation.","PeriodicalId":72729,"journal":{"name":"Current challenges in thoracic surgery","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Current challenges in thoracic surgery","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.21037/ccts-21-27","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Background: To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of a tracheal membrane laceration (TML) repair in a frail COVID-19 patient requiring long term ventilation.