EJCTS Click here for details of sales representative
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
 QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     


Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2008;33:928-930. doi:10.1016/j.ejcts.2008.01.040
Copyright © 2008, European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery. Published by Elsevier. All rights reserved.

This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Personal Folders
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Author home page(s):
Amir Abolhoda
Jeffrey C. Milliken
Right arrow Permission Requests
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Abolhoda, A.
Right arrow Articles by Milliken, J. C.
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Abolhoda, A.
Right arrow Articles by Milliken, J. C.
Related Collections
Right arrow Chest wall


How-to-do-it

Harvest technique for pedicled transposition of latissimus dorsi muscle: an old trade revisited

Amir Abolhodaa,*, Garrett A. Wirthb, Trung D. Buib, Jeffrey C. Millikena

a University of California, Irvine, Medical Center, Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Orange, CA, United States
b University of California, Irvine, Medical Center, Department of Surgery, Orange, CA, United States

Received 13 July 2007; received in revised form 21 December 2007; accepted 16 January 2008.

* Corresponding author. Address: Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of California, Irvine Medical Center, 101 The City Drive, Building 53, Room 117, Orange, CA 92868-3298, United States. Tel.: +1 714 456 3634; fax: +1 714 456 8870. (Email: aabolhod{at}uci.edu; gwirth{at}uci.edu; buitd{at}uci.edu; jmillik{at}uci.edu).

Transposition of extrathoracic muscle flaps has been the cornerstone of treatment of a number of complex intrathoracic pathologies such as bronchopleural fistulas and residual infected pleural spaces. We present a simple step-wise technique for preservation and harvesting of the most common muscle flap employed by thoracic surgeons, namely latissimus dorsi, just prior to performing a standard posterolateral thoracotomy. Since 2004, we have successfully utilized pedicled latissimus muscle as our preferred prophylactic flap against development of postoperative bronchopleural fistulas or recurrent empyemas. This technique should be part of every thoracic surgeon's surgical armamentarium.

Key Words: Latissimus dorsi muscle flap • Harvest technique • Thoracic surgery







HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
ANN THORAC SURG ASIAN CARDIOVASC THORAC ANN EUR J CARDIOTHORAC SURG
J THORAC CARDIOVASC SURG ICVTS ALL CTSNet JOURNALS
Copyright © 2008 European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. Published by Elsevier. All rights reserved.