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Videothoracoscopic drainage of mediastinal abscess: an alternative to thoracotomy
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|July 6, 2000
Abstract:
A late-presenting high esophageal perforation that resulted in a massive mediastinal abscess and bronchopleural fistula in an elderly moribund patient unfit for radical surgery was successfully drained using a videothoracoscopic technique.