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Fiberoptic bronchoscopic removal of intratracheal pledgetted repair sutures
1Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, USA.
Journal of the National Medical Association
|April 29, 1998
Abstract:
This article describes the use of a flexible bronchoscope to remove pledgetted repair sutures within the trachea. The use of a flexible scope to remove densely adherent material is difficult but occasionally necessary.