Bronchopleural Fistula Repair Using Combined Breast Parenchymal and Pectoralis Major Musculocutaneous Flap

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1022-1025

  Ridgway, Emily ^a   DeCamp, Malcolm ^a   Morris, Donald ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFEPIME;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST; BRONCHOPLEURAL FISTULA; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; DONOR SITE; EMPYEMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GASTROSTOMY; HUMAN; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PATIENT POSITIONING; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN GRAFT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE;

BREAST; BRONCHIAL FISTULA; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; EMPYEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; PECTORALIS MUSCLES; PLEURAL DISEASES; RESPIRATORY TRACT FISTULA; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE EXPANSION DEVICES;

EID: 49749098566     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.02.052     Document Type: Article

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