Abstract
Among traumas, tracheobronchial injuries are rare and typically occur as the result of blunt thoracic injury. Immediate or potentially life-threatening thoracic injuries are uncommon, but must be identified and treated quickly. Tracheobronchial rupture is caused by direct trauma to the anterior neck, traction forces when the head is thrown suddenly backward, and increasing the pressure in the bronchi enough to cause rupture. In the case of blunt neck injury, we otorhinolaryngologists usually see the patient first; therefore, we must have the knowledge to treat complicated chest injury with blunt neck injury.
We report a case of tracheobronchial injury due to blunt neck injury in a 4-year-old boy.
