TRANSHIATAL CLOSURE OF RIGHT-SIDED ESOPHAGEAL RUPTURE AFTER A LEFT PNEUMONECTOMY

Authors
KOTSIS L AGOCS L KOVACS J
Citation
L. Kotsis et al., TRANSHIATAL CLOSURE OF RIGHT-SIDED ESOPHAGEAL RUPTURE AFTER A LEFT PNEUMONECTOMY, The Annals of thoracic surgery, 63(1), 1997, pp. 246-247
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Surgery,"Cardiac & Cardiovascular System
Journal title
The Annals of thoracic surgery → ACNP
ISSN journal
00034975
Volume
63
Issue
1
Year of publication
1997
Pages
246 - 247
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-4975(1997)63:1<246:TCORER>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
Right-sided spontaneous esophageal rupture developed 2 days after left pneumonectomy and vomiting. To avoid contamination of the pneumonecto mized left thoracic cavity as well as a contralateral thoracotomy, we used a transhiatal approach for primary repair of the rupture, combine d with right-sided pleural and mediastinal drainage, gastrostomy, and feeding jejunostomy. The 7-day barium meal control showed healing of t he rupture. (C) 1997 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons