title: Transparasternal transpericardial operation in the treatment of chronic empyema with bronchopleural fistula.
abstract: A 78-year-old man with a lung destroyed by chronic empyema underwent pleuropneumonectomy, 4 months after open-window thoracostomy, via a transparasternal transpericardial approach. This approach is safe and effective in great vessel and bronchus dissection and applicable to cases of persistent chronic empyema such as our.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular and Respiratory Surgery, Tottori Prefectural Central Hospital, 730 Ezu, Tottori 680-0901, Japan.
authors.forename: Keisuke
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Morimoto
authors.forename: Iwao
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Taniguchi
authors.forename: Yoshinobu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: Tomoyuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Maeda
authors.forename: Munehiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Saiki
authors.forename: Takeshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamaga
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001983:Bronchial Fistula / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D016724:Empyema, Pleural / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D005402:Fistula / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010995:Pleural Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D019616:Thoracic Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*