Surgical Treatment of Postpneumonectomy Empyema with Bronchopleural Fistula - 2 Cases using Pedicled Omental Flap & Muscle Transposition -

기관지흉막루를 동반한 전폐절제술후 농흉의 수술치료: 유경 대망판과 흉벽근육을 사용한 치험 2례

The treatment of acute and chronic empyema with bronchopleural fistula is remained as serious postoperative complication in thoracic surgery. Although several operative procedures for the treatment of postpneumonectomy empyema have been reported, the method of treating empyema, and in particular empyema associated with fistula, remains controversial. Recently some successful results have been reported by use of the omentum in the patients with thoracic empyema resulting from bronchial fistula. We have performed one-stage operations using the omentum and chest wall muscles in 2 patients, one was acute, and the other was chronic case. Their postoperative courses were uneventful