Treatment of empyema by transposition of contralateral lower trapezius flap.
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.
Watanabe
H
H
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Japan.
Imaizumi
M
M
Takeuchi
S
S
Murase
M
M
Hasegawa
T
T
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*