Modified thoracoplasty.

Transposition of modified latissimus dorsi musculocutaneous flap in the treatment of persistent bronchopleural fistula after posterolateral incision.

The condition of a 51-year-old man was complicated with empyema and bronchopleural fistula (BPF) after left upper lobectomy and thoracoplasty for pulmonary aspergillosis. On the postoperative day (POD) 12, the opened bronchial stump was directly closed and covered with a pedicled pectoralis major muscle flap. On POD 66, an open-window thoracostomy was done, because of empyema with Pseudomonas a...

Medical treatment as an alternative to thoracoplasty in pulmonary tuberculosis.

The object of this investigation was to determine the results of treatment in a group of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis suitable for thoracoplasty but on whom no operation was performed. Before the introduction of antibacterial drugs an evaluation of thoracoplasty was made by Refsum (1951) in a retrospective analysis of 106 cases diagnosed between 1921 and 1928, who, although suitable for...

Assessment of respiratory function in girls with scoliosis after thoracoplasty.

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to assess pulmonary function in patients after spinal fusion combined with thoracoplasty in comparison with subjects in whom thoracoplasty was not performed, but who underwent intensive rehabilitation. MATERIAL NA DMETHODS: The study population consisted of two groups of adolescent girls about two years after surgical correction of scoliosis by Cotrel-Dubouss...

A new method of controlling paradoxical respiration in single stage thoracoplasty.

It is felt by the authors that there is still a distinct place for thoracoplasty in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. We believe that attempts to treat every surgical case by resection will result in complications and deaths which could have been avoided by the occasional use of thoracoplasty. Furthermore, if a classical thoracoplasty could be done as described by Alexander,1 in a single...

Thoracoplasty