Preventive Esophagomyobronchoplasty as a Reliable Prophylaxis of Bronchial Stump Failure and Bronchopleural Fistula after Pneumonectomy in Lung Cancer
R. A. Sulimanov,
E. S. Spassky,
R. R. Sulimanov
et al.
Abstract:Introduction. At present, bronchial stump failure after pneumonectomy ranges from 1% to 20%, and mortality — from 20 to 75%. In past decades, various methods of preventive bronchoplasty have been introduced and improved in order to reduce the incidence of the bronchial stump failure and bronchopleural fistula. However, the existing methods fail to prove their predominant effectiveness to be suggested as a “gold standard” for prevention of the bronchial stump failure during pneumonectomy. A method introduced by… Show more
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