| Literature DB >> 12073601 |
Keisuke Morimoto1, Iwao Taniguchi, Yoshinobu Nakamura, Tomoyuki Maeda, Munehiro Saiki, Takeshi Yamaga.
Abstract
A 78-year-old man with a lung destroyed by chronic empyema underwent pleuropneumonectomy, 4 months after open-window thoracostomy, via a transparasternal transpericardial approach. This approach is safe and effective in great vessel and bronchus dissection and applicable to cases of persistent chronic empyema such as our.Entities:
Mesh:
Year: 2002 PMID: 12073601 DOI: 10.1007/bf03032153
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Jpn J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg ISSN: 1344-4964