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Ann Thorac Surg 1997;63:837-839
© 1997 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Case Reports

Treatment of Empyema by Transposition of Contralateral Lower Trapezius Flap

Hideyo Watanabe, MD, Munehisa Imaizumi, MD, Seijiro Takeuchi, MD, Mitsuya Murase, MD, Takashi Hasegawa, MD

Departments of Thoracic Surgery and Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Accepted for publication October 10, 1996.

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.






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