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Treatment of empyema by transposition of contralateral lower trapezius flap
H Watanabe1, M Imaizumi, S Takeuchi
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Japan.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|March 1, 1997
Abstract:
We report the successful treatment of bronchopleural fistula and empyema using transposition of a contralateral lower trapezius musclocutaneous flap, which provided immediate obliteration of the middle-back empyema cavity. This technique is easy to perform without any intraoperative change of position and with little postoperative impairment of the back and shoulder movement.