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Management of Empyema Cavity With the Vacuum-Assisted Closure Device.
- Source :
- Annals of Thoracic Surgery; Feb2006, Vol. 81 Issue 2, p723-725, 3p
- Publication Year :
- 2006
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Abstract
- Management of empyema after pulmonary resection remains a challenging problem. Along with mandatory drainage of the thoracic cavity and investigations to rule out bronchopleural fistula, a reliable method of thoracic cavity closure is needed. The open thoracic window and Eloesser flap techniques rarely represent definitive therapy. Muscle flap and thoracoplasty procedures may provide well-vascularized tissue to close bronchopleural fistula and obliterate the empyema cavity, but they are quite complex and involve significant patient morbidity. We report a case of empyema without bronchopleural fistula after lobectomy in which the vacuum-assisted closure device was used to achieve complete wound healing after open drainage. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
- Subjects :
- LUNG surgery
THORACIC surgery
OPERATIVE surgery
FISTULA
EMPYEMA
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00034975
- Volume :
- 81
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Annals of Thoracic Surgery
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 19466535
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2004.10.040