A technique using a rectus abdominis muscle flap in the treatment of adult congenital tracheoesophageal fistulas.
The authors successfully treated an adult with congenital tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF) Gross-C type by the addition of an effective pedicled muscle flap. This patient had undergone 2 thoracotomies when he was an infant at another hospital; however, the fistula recurred. After transection and closure of the fistula, a right rectus abdominis muscle flap between the 2 stumps was interposed. The current case followed a favorable postoperative course; neither fistula nor abdominal hernia occurred.
Suzuki
Takashi
T
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Showa University Fujigaoka Hospital, Yokohama, Japan.
Masuda
Mikio
M
Mori
Takanobu
T
Hirai
Yoshinori
Y
Sanada
Yutaka
Y
Chiba
Masahiro
M
Sumiya
Noriyoshi
N
D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017568:Rectus Abdominis; D012008:Recurrence; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D014138:Tracheoesophageal Fistula / Q000601:surgery*