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SUMMARY
Indeed, as recently stated by the European Laryngological Society, the heightened number of long-term intubations and the huge tracheostomy rate in critically ill COVID-19 patients might shortly determine an unprecedented increase in laryngotracheal granulomas, stenosis, malacia, tracheal necrosis, tracheo-oesophageal and trachea-innominate fistulae (Alturk et_al, 2020; Mattioli et_al, 2021; Piazza et_al, 2021). The complication led to airway obstruction with consequent pneumonia or even death (Abbott et_al, 1932; Clagett et_al, 1948; Longmire, 1948; Cotton et_al, 1952; Blades and Beattie, 1986). The lack of integration with the surrounding tissue, granulation formation and haemorrhages . . .
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