[Severe tracheobronchial complications of the ingestion of caustics in adults. A case of perforation healed with a pulmonary patch].

Since 1969, in a study of 100 patients hospitalized for severe caustic ingestion meeding intensive surgery, the authors have found 9 cases of critical tracheo-bronchic burns characterized by necrotic lesions. Those lesions constitute a severe complication (6 deaths amongst 9 patients) thus the obsolute necessity of precocius and repeated tracheobronchic fiber endoscopies. In case of an ulcerating or pre-splitting aspect appearing in localised necrotic lesions, the authors preconise in emergency a tracheobronchic plasty using a lung patch. Other treatments are discussed.