title: Treatment of empyema by transposition of contralateral lower trapezius flap.
abstract: We report the successful treatment of bronchopleural fistula and empyema using transposition of a contralateral lower trapezius musclocutaneous flap, which provided immediate obliteration of the middle-back empyema cavity. This technique is easy to perform without any intraoperative change of position and with little postoperative impairment of the back and shoulder movement.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Imaizumi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Takeuchi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Murase
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hasegawa
mesh_terms: D001983:Bronchial Fistula / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D016724:Empyema, Pleural / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D005402:Fistula / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000556:secondary / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010995:Pleural Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D013524:Surgical Flaps / Q000379:methods*