“…Although later reconstruction resulted in satisfactory lung-physiological data in several cases (Razemon and Gernez-Rieux, 1956;Mahaffey, Creech, Boren, and DeBakey, 1956;Tyson, Watson, and Sibley, 1958), it is evident that uniform results cannot be expected from these procedures (Chesterman and Satsangi, 1966). Immediate restoration of the continuity of the bronchus at the time of injury is therefore generally accepted as the method of choice in the treatment of a ruptured tracheobronchial tree (Dor, Forster, and le Brigand, 1964).…”