The authors present a case of war injury to the thoracic trachea with
the defect involving more than half of its circumference. After minor
difficulties in establishing the right diagnosis, we passed to the sur
gical procedure and managed the lesion by simple suture. The patient's
postoperative course at the Intensive Care Unit was uneventful. Both
early and late follow-up roentgenograms, computerized tomography of th
e trachea and bronchoscopy showed normal findings.