Authors
Ablitsov A.Yu., Vasilashko V.I., Susov R.P., Chetverikova E.A.
St. George thoracic and cardiovascular surgery clinic Pirogov National Medical and Surgical Center, Moscow
Abstract
We present a clinical case of successful surgical treatment of chronic nonspecific pleural empyema after right-sided pneumonectomy for central moderately differentiated squamous cell carcinoma of the right lung with bronchopleural fistula.
Keywords: thoracostomy, pleural empyema, brochopleural fistula, thoracomyoplasty, pyothorax, clinical case.
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