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Corrosion of a silver Negus tracheostomy tube

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

C. A. Ayshford ,
R. M. Walsh  and
D. W. Proops
C. A. Ayshford*
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK.
R. M. Walsh
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK.
D. W. Proops
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK.
*
Address for correspondence: Mr C. A. Ayshford, Department of Otolaryngology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TN. Fax: 0121 627 2999
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Abstract

Corrosion of silver tracheostomy tubes has previously been reported. In all of these reports, it occurred at the junction between the neck plate and the outer tube where an alloy of inferior corrosion resistance, compared to silver, has been used in the brazed joint. We present, to our knowledge, a previously unreported case of corrosion of the main body of the outer tube of a silver Negus tracheostomy tube where no such alloy is present.

Keywords

TracheostomyProsthesis failure
Type
Clinical Records
Information
The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 113 , Issue 1 , January 1999 , pp. 68 - 69
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1999

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