A Windpipe Cartilage Spontaneously Vomited After Thoracic Contusion

Abstract

I have had a patient, young man 28 years in age, in healthy condition, who had a contusion on his prothrax and spontaneously vomited a piece of his windpipe cartilage ring six days afterward.
Probably the contusion which made a lateral laceration resulted with a suppurative priostitis of the cartilage through a secondary infection subsequently. The local abcess formed beneath the cartilage periorsteum finally made a part of the cartilage ring change into a decayed bome. The abcess having at last broken through the windpipe, this piece of cartilage simultaneously rushed into the windpipe and was naturally vomited out as a foreign body in the windpipe.