Chest wall and sternal resection and reconstruction
Sridhar Rathinam1, Pala B Rajesh, Francis J Collins
1Regional Department of Thoracic Surgery, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Bordesley Green East, Birmingham BS9 5SS, UK.
Abstract:
Chest wall resection is performed for a variety of conditions and has been a complex problem in the past due to intraoperative technical difficulties, surgical complications, and respiratory failure. Advances in the fields of surgery and anaesthesia and the team effort of the involved thoracic and plastic surgeons result in more aggressive resections with good results. The surgical technique of sternal excision and reconstruction with a Marlex methacrylate composite prosthesis as a part of chest wall resection and reconstruction series is described here in this chapter.
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