Rare Complication Of Orotracheal Intubation: Obstructive Fibrinous Tracheal Pseudomembrane, About A Case And Review Of The Literature

Abstract

We report a case of obstructive fibrinous tracheal pseudomembrane as being complication of endotracheal intubation in a 73 year-old woman, whose particularities are: The non-urgent clinical presentation with non-specific symptoms, the biopsy with anatomopathological study exceptionally found in the literature for the same case and the favorable evolution under medical treatment without recourse to the interventional bronchoscopy which represents the treatment the most frequent and the most effective of this affection.