Chest wall defect and chronic pleural infection: Surgical treatment with thoracomyoplasty and open window thoracostomy

Japanese Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 402-404

  Pichler, Maximilian ^a   Albrecht, Jens ^a   Padberg, Winfried ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chest defect; Chronic pleural infection; Hemiplegia; Open window thoracostomy; Thoracomyoplasty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRONCHOPLEURAL FISTULA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVALESCENCE; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; MUSCLE GRAFT; PLASTIC SURGERY; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX SURGERY; THORAX WALL DEFECT;

AGED; BRONCHIAL FISTULA; CHRONIC DISEASE; EMPYEMA, TUBERCULOUS; HUMANS; MALE; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SURGICAL FLAPS; THORACIC WALL; THORACOPLASTY; THORACOSTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33750351950     PISSN: 13444964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11748-006-0016-3     Document Type: Article

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