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Transhiatal closure of right-sided esophageal rupture after a left pneumonectomy
1Thoracic Surgical Clinic, Postgraduate Medical University, Budapest, Hungary.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
Right-sided spontaneous esophageal rupture developed 2 days after left pneumonectomy and vomiting. To avoid contamination of the pneumonectomized left thoracic cavity as well as a contralateral thoracotomy, we used a transhiatal approach for primary repair of the rupture, combined with right-sided pleural and mediastinal drainage, gastrostomy, and feeding jejunostomy. The 7-day barium meal control showed healing of the rupture.