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[Thoracic Wall Defect Reconstruction and Dead Space Obliteration with an Intra-/extrathoracic Free Flap]

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Journal Chirurg
Specialty General Surgery
Date 2009 Mar 13
PMID 19280081
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Abstract

Presented is the case of a 61-year-old male patient with a chronic thoracic wall defect, including a bronchopleural fistula, after multiple resections of a desmoid tumor. After partial lung resection to remove the bronchopleural fistula, dead space was partially obliterated and the thoracic wall reconstructed with a free combined intra- and extrathoracic rectus abdominis muscle flap.

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