Repair of a complex body wall defect using polytetrafluorethylene patches

• Published in: The Annals of thoracic surgery Vol. 60; no. 1; pp. 197 - 199
• Main Authors: Grannis, Frederic W., Wagman, Lawrence D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Elsevier Inc 01.07.1995; Elsevier Science
• Subjects: Abdominal Muscles - surgery; Adult; Biological and medical sciences; Diaphragm - surgery; Fatal Outcome; Humans; Lung Neoplasms - secondary; Lung Neoplasms - surgery; Male; Medical sciences; Miscellaneous; Osteosarcoma - secondary; Osteosarcoma - surgery; Polytetrafluoroethylene; Soft Tissue Neoplasms - pathology; Soft Tissue Neoplasms - surgery; Surgery (general aspects). Transplantations, organ and tissue grafts. Graft diseases; Surgical Mesh; Thoracic Neoplasms - secondary; Thoracic Neoplasms - surgery; Thoracic Surgery - methods; Human; Reconstruction; Diseases of the osteoarticular system; Malignant tumor; Case study; Treatment; Exeresis; Osteosarcoma; Surgery; Abdominal wall; Diaphragm; Technique; Chest wall; Patch
• ISSN: 0003-4975; 1552-6259
• DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(95)00035-6

Techniques for repair of chest wall, abdominal wall, and diaphragm have been well described, but simultaneous repair of defects involving each of these three areas after tumor ablation provides the surgeon with a difficult technical problem. Repair of a large defect with two polytetrafluorethylene patches after resection of an osteosarcoma invading the lower chest wall, abdominal wall, and diaphragm is described.