Reappraisal of fascia lata grafts for reconstruction of chest wall defects.
Large chest wall defects require surgical reconstruction to ensure structural stability and to prevent flail chest. We used autologous fascia lata grafts to reconstruct skeletal chest wall defects in 8 consecutive patients. Sufficient chest wall stability was obtained; and no complications, such as flail chest, infection, or seroma, have been observed in any of the cases to date.
Murakawa
Tomohiro
T
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. murakawa-tky@umin.ac.jp
Nakajima
Jun
J
Maeda
Katsuhide
K
Tanaka
Makoto
M
Takamoto
Shinichi
S
D005206:Fascia Lata / Q000637:transplantation*; D006801:Humans; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D035441:Thoracic Wall / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery*