A text-book of diseases of the nose and throat (1904)
Kyle, David Braden, 1863-1916 · Philadelphia ; New York ; London : W.B. Saunders · leaf 639
from position, causing a dangerous lateral dissectionback even as far as the vertebral column, and attended by danger-ous pressure on the trachea or injury to the post-tracheal structures.In incising the trachea, if a membrane be present, the latter maybe pushed ahead of the knife without being… … Fig. 174.—Trousseaus tracheal dilator. scissors or knife. Again, an incautious use of the the knife maycause the posterior wall to be wounded, or even penetrated andopened into the esophagus. The trachea may be clogged by mucusor blood and mucus, or blood may have entered with the incisionand…
