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Images in Cardiothoracic Surgery

Axillary Stomach: An Unusual Postpneumonectomy Complication

^a Department of Radiology, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, Washington
^b Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, Washington

^_* Address correspondence to Dr Pipavath, Department of Radiology, University of Washington Medical Center, Box 357115, 1959 NE Pacific St, Seattle, WA 98195 (Email: snjp@u.washington.edu).

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A 39-year-old man with left upper lobe lung cancer had undergone pneumonectomy 2 years before and had a complicated postoperative course with bronchopleural fistula and empyema that was treated with an open window thoracostomy with persistent purulent drainage. Then he underwent repeat thoracotomy with an omental flap brought into the chest through an anterior incision in the diaphragm. The omentum was tacked to the diaphragm . . . [Full Text of this Article]