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Pericardial closure using fascia lata in patients undergoing pneumonectomy with pericardiectomy
Y Kageyama1, K Suzuki, K Matsushita
1First Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Shizuoka, Japan. kageka@hama-med.ac.jp
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|September 2, 1998
Abstract:
In patients undergoing pneumonectomy with concomitant pericardiectomy, patch closure of the defect in the pericardium is required to prevent postoperative cardiac herniation. We used harvested autologous fascia lata as a pericardial patch in such operations on 6 patients with progressive lung cancer after induction chemoradiotherapy.