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Ann Thorac Surg 2007;83:703-704
© 2007 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

How To Do It

Transverse Bronchoplasty of the Membranous Wall After Resection of an Endobronchial Hamartoma

Periklis Tomos, MDa, Theodoros Karaiskos, MDa,*, Elias Lahanas, MDa, Dionysios Paulopoulos, MDa, Dimitrios Papahristou, MDa, Antonios Stauroulias, MDb, Antonios Papachristodoulou, MDa

a 2nd Department of Surgery, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
b Department of Lung Diseases, "Laiko" Hospital of Athens, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Accepted for publication March 21, 2006.

* Address correspondence to Dr Karaiskos, "G. Papanikolaou" General Hospital of Thessaloniki, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Exohi, Thessaloniki, 57010 Greece. (Email: theokar{at}panafonet.gr).

Lung hamartomas are rare benign tumors of the bronchi. Their management consists of bronchoscopic excision or removal through a thoracotomy and bronchotomy whenever there is a large tumor totally obstructing the bronchial lumen. As a lung-sparing procedure is usually the aim, various bronchoplastic techniques have been described, providing a functional lumen of the repaired bronchus. We describe a simple technique that can be safely undertaken to preserve a satisfactory diameter of the bronchus or trachea and prevent a stenosis at the site of repair.






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