Hawari Mohammad, Wemyss-Holden Simon, Parry Gareth Wyn
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, NHS Trust, Norwich, NR4 7UY, UK.
Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2010 May;10(5):828-9. doi: 10.1510/icvts.2009.221085. Epub 2010 Feb 5.
We report a case of recurrent chest wall abscesses overlying a right thoracotomy scar four years after a pneumonectomy for a right middle lobe bronchus squamous cell carcinoma. Exploration of the abscess cavities revealed no intra-thoracic or intra-abdominal communication. The patient developed sinuses in his thoracotomy scar and two years later, two gallstones were expelled from these sinuses. A cholecystocutaneous fistula was confirmed on a fistulogram.