Gastric tube-to-tracheal fistula closed with a latissimus dorsi myocutaneous flap

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 561-562

  Hayashi, Koji ^a   Ando, Nobutoshi ^a   Ozawa, Soji ^a   Tsujizuka, Kazuyuki ^a   Kitajima, Masaki ^a   Kaneko, Tsuyoshi ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BRONCHOSCOPY; BRONCHUS STENOSIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RECONSTRUCTION; ESOPHAGUS ULCER; FEMALE; FISTULA; HUMAN; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; LUNG LAVAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH TUBE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRACHEA; ULCER PERFORATION;

BRONCHOSCOPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; GASTRIC FISTULA; GASTROSCOPY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; STOMACH; SURGICAL FLAPS; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA;

EID: 0032709803     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(99)00601-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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