NTUH saves man strangled by power line using novel trachea surgery

A motorcycle rider strangled by a power line during a typhoon last year has become the world's first person to have a traumatic tracheal rupture repaired using an aortic graft, the National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) said Wednesday.

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