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Ann Thorac Surg 2000;69:1573-1574
© 2000 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Case reports

Videothoracoscopic drainage of mediastinal abscess: an alternative to thoracotomy

Darryl A. Chung, FRCSa, Andrew J. Ritchie, FRCSa

a Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Address reprint requests to Dr Ritchie, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Papworth Hospital, Papworth Everard, CB3 8RE Cambridge, UK

A late-presenting high esophageal perforation that resulted in a massive mediastinal abscess and bronchopleural fistula in an elderly moribund patient unfit for radical surgery was successfully drained using a videothoracoscopic technique.




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