Bronchial stump reinforcement with an azygous vein flap

Bronchial stump reinforcement has been shown to significantly reduce the incidence of bronchopleural fistulas. Various coverage techniques have been described in the literature. While the azygous vein flap is an easy, safe and effective reinforcement option for right-sided bronchial stumps, the flap...

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Autores principales: Al-Mufarrej, Faisal, Margolis, Marc, Strother, Eric, Tempesta, Barbara, Gharagozloo, Farid
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Letters to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2696446/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19476615
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-4-22
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author Al-Mufarrej, Faisal
Margolis, Marc
Strother, Eric
Tempesta, Barbara
Gharagozloo, Farid
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description Bronchial stump reinforcement has been shown to significantly reduce the incidence of bronchopleural fistulas. Various coverage techniques have been described in the literature. While the azygous vein flap is an easy, safe and effective reinforcement option for right-sided bronchial stumps, the flap is not widely adopted, with little mention in the literature, partly due to surgeons' uneasiness with the technique. In this report, we describe an easy-to-adopt approach to azygous vein bronchial reinforcement.
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spelling pubmed-26964462009-06-16 Bronchial stump reinforcement with an azygous vein flap Al-Mufarrej, Faisal Margolis, Marc Strother, Eric Tempesta, Barbara Gharagozloo, Farid J Cardiothorac Surg Letters to the Editor Bronchial stump reinforcement has been shown to significantly reduce the incidence of bronchopleural fistulas. Various coverage techniques have been described in the literature. While the azygous vein flap is an easy, safe and effective reinforcement option for right-sided bronchial stumps, the flap is not widely adopted, with little mention in the literature, partly due to surgeons' uneasiness with the technique. In this report, we describe an easy-to-adopt approach to azygous vein bronchial reinforcement. BioMed Central 2009-05-28 /pmc/articles/PMC2696446/ /pubmed/19476615 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-4-22 Text en Copyright © 2009 Al-Mufarrej et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Tempesta, Barbara
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title_full Bronchial stump reinforcement with an azygous vein flap
title_fullStr Bronchial stump reinforcement with an azygous vein flap
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title_short Bronchial stump reinforcement with an azygous vein flap
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topic Letters to the Editor
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2696446/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19476615
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-4-22
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