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Bronchial stump aspergillosis after stapled lobectomy for lung cancer
Keita Tokuishi1, Shin-ichi Yamashita, Takafumi Hashimoto
1Department of Surgery II, Oita University Faculty of Medicine, Oita, Japan. m207056@oita-u.ac.jp
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|September 26, 2012
Abstract:
Aspergillus causes several pulmonary complications, but bronchial stump aspergillosis (BSA) is very rare. To date, 31 cases of bronchial stump aspergillosis have been reported in the English, German, and Japanese literature. The bronchial stump was closed by hand-sewn suturing in most cases, but we report herein two cases of BSA that developed after stapled closure of the bronchial stump.
