Lee J-I, Kim G-W, Park K-Y
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Gachon Medical School, Gil Hospital, Incheon, Republic of Korea.
Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2007 Sep;55(6):401-2. doi: 10.1055/s-2006-955943.
Intercostal nerve damage is the probable cause of chronic post-thoracotomy pain, but the precise mechanism is not known. To reduce this pain, we devised a simple method of rib spreading and closure (intercostal bundle-splitting thoracotomy), which avoids the intercostal nerve during thoracotomy, and then verified its effectiveness. The devised method appears to result in less chronic pain than the conventional method.
肋间神经损伤可能是开胸术后慢性疼痛的原因,但确切机制尚不清楚。为了减轻这种疼痛,我们设计了一种简单的肋骨撑开和闭合方法(肋间束分离开胸术),该方法在开胸手术过程中避开肋间神经,然后验证了其有效性。与传统方法相比,所设计的方法似乎能减少慢性疼痛。