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Parts Of The Body Affected By Bronchial Asthma
Torn tracheal mucosa; Bronchial rupture
Treatment
People who have had a trauma will need to have their injuries treated. Injuries to the trachea often need to be repaired during surgery. Injuries to the smaller bronchi can sometimes be treated without surgery. A collapsed lung is treated with a chest tube connected to suction, which re-expands the lung.
For patients who have breathed a foreign body into the airways, rigid or fiberoptic bronchoscopy may be used...
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