Clinical experience of omental pedicle flap for bronchopleural fistula
Nagata, Y.; Kato, S.; Nogaki, H.; Tsuchioka, H.
Kyobu Geka. Japanese Journal of Thoracic Surgery 42(13): 1101-1104
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0021-5252 PMID: 2593420 Document Number: 328090
We present two patients who underwent the omental pedicle flap method for bronchopleural fistula. The first case was a 61-year-old man who developed empyema with bronchial fistula due to recurrent tuberculosis resisted to chemotherapy. He underwent complete muscle and omental flap closure of empyema space. The second case was a 63-year-old man who underwent pneumonectomy for adenocarcinoma of the lung. About two weeks after the operation, a bronchopleural fistula developed at the bronchial stump. He underwent complete omental flap closure of fistula. They are doing well 18 and 9 months following operation, respectively. The omental pedicle flap method is clinically useful as a closure method for bronchopleural fistula because of excellent blood supply of the omentum.