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Video-Assisted Thorascopic Repair of a Subarachnoid-Pleural Fistula in a Child After Thoracic Tumor Resection
- Source :
- Spine. 35:E347-E350
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2010.
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Abstract
- Study Design. Technical report. Objective. To describe a minimally invasive surgical approach for the obliteration of a subarachnoid-pleural fistula in a 4-year-old child after resection of an intrathoracic ganglioneuroma. Summary of Background Data. Development of a subarachnoid-pleural fistula has been reported after thoracotomy for lung, chest wall, and spinal tumors, when an iatrogenic meningeal laceration results in establishing communication between the spinal subarachnoid space and the pleural cavity. Methods. Review of a single case in which video-assisted thorascopic surgery (VATS) was used to deposit fibrin glue and to suture a pleural allograft. Literature review was performed to document other options to treat subarachnoid-pleural cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) fistula. Results. At 10 months after VATS repair, the CSF fistula has remained closed. Conclusion. VATS technique should be considered for a safe, efficacious, and durable CSF leak repair and as an alternative to open thoracotomy in the pediatric age group.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.medical_treatment
Fistula
Fibrin Tissue Adhesive
Subarachnoid Space
medicine
Humans
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Thoracotomy
Ganglioneuroma
Fibrin glue
Lung
Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted
business.industry
Pleural Diseases
Thoracic Neoplasms
Pleural cavity
medicine.disease
Surgery
Pleural Effusion
Treatment Outcome
medicine.anatomical_structure
Cardiothoracic surgery
Child, Preschool
Female
Neurology (clinical)
Radiology
Respiratory Tract Fistula
Subarachnoid space
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 03622436
- Volume :
- 35
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Spine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e17e580b1bf80d0bae06d7638a7ebaa7