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Diaphragm reconstruction with autologous fascia lata: report of a case
Y Kageyama1, K Suzuki, K Matsushita
1First Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Shizuoka, Japan.
Surgery Today
|January 20, 2000
Abstract:
When the diaphragm is excised so widely that the defect cannot be closed directly during an operation on either thoracic or epigastric tumors, a reconstruction of the defect is necessary. We used harvested autologous fascia lata to reconstruct the diaphragm in a patient undergoing a pleuropneumonectomy with a partial diaphragmatic resection for malignant mesothelioma.