Free Rectus Abdominis Musculocutaneous Flap for Chronic Postoperative Empyema

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2147-2149

  Jiang, Lei ^a   Jiang, Ge ning ^a   He, Wen xin ^a   Fan, Jiang ^a   Zhou, Yi ming ^a   Gao, Wen ^a   Ding, Jia an ^a  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BRONCHOPLEURAL FISTULA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PLEURA CAVITY; PLEURA EMPYEMA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; THORACIC CAVITY; THORAX; THORAX DRAINAGE;

BRONCHIAL FISTULA; CHRONIC DISEASE; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FISTULA; HUMANS; MICROSURGERY; PLEURAL DISEASES; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; THORACOSTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 43649107976     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.11.061     Document Type: Article

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