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Repair of a complex body wall defect using polytetrafluorethylene patches
1Department of General and Oncologic Surgery, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA 91010, USA.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|July 1, 1995
Abstract:
Techniques for repair of chest wall, abdominal wall, and diaphragm have been well described, but simultaneous repair of defects involving each of these three areas after tumor ablation provides the surgeon with a difficult technical problem. Repair of a large defect with two polytetrafluorethylene patches after resection of an osteosarcoma invading the lower chest wall, abdominal wall, and diaphragm is described.