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Ann Thorac Surg 1998;66:1805-1806
© 1998 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Case Reports

Chest wall repair with a titanium instrument

Kiyoshi Ohno, MDa, Keiji Kuwata, MDa, Yoshio Yamasaki, MDa, Katsuhiko Akizuki, MDa, Iwao Satoh, MDb

a Department of Surgery, Osaka Kosei-Nenkin Hospital, Osaka, Japan
b Department of Orthopaedics, Osaka Kosei-Nenkin Hospital, Osaka, Japan

Accepted for publication May 9, 1998.

Address reprint requests to Dr Ohno, Department of Surgery, Osaka Kosei-Nenkin Hospital, Fukushima-ku, Osaka, Japan

We performed chest wall repair with titanium alloy instruments as artificial ribs for prevention of paradoxical respiration and protection of the lung and liver after chest wall resection including the nearly entire length of the right seventh to the eleventh ribs and the costal arch for metastasis of osteosarcoma. The technique of this operation is presented diagrammatically.






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