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Masanori Shimomura1, Yoshihiro Sowa2, Ryo Yamochi2
1Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
Abstract:
The latissimus dorsi and serratus anterior muscles are available for reconstruction coverage of thoracic defects. We performed extended latissimus dorsi-serratus anterior chimeric thoraco-myoplasty with a vascular supercharge to maintain sufficient blood supply to the flaps because of a deficiency in the distal blood flow to the flap revealed by an intravenous injection of indocyanine green and simultaneous endobronchial embolization for refractory Aspergillus empyema.
