[Subcutaneous cervico-thoracic emphysema and pneumo-mediastinum following a tracheostomy].

Reporting the case of a man, 70-year-old, suffering a chronic obstructive lung disease of moderate degree linked to important Reinke's oedema, who underwent a tracheotomy, being troubled the immediate postoperative period with subcutaneous emphysema and pneumomediastinitis, complications resolved favourably in a ten days term, and the patient could be decannulated.