Kotsis L, Agócs L, Kovács J
Thoracic Surgical Clinic, Postgraduate Medical University, Budapest, Hungary.
Ann Thorac Surg. 1997 Jan;63(1):246-7. doi: 10.1016/s0003-4975(96)00928-9.
Right-sided spontaneous esophageal rupture developed 2 days after left pneumonectomy and vomiting. To avoid contamination of the pneumonectomized left thoracic cavity as well as a contralateral thoracotomy, we used a transhiatal approach for primary repair of the rupture, combined with right-sided pleural and mediastinal drainage, gastrostomy, and feeding jejunostomy. The 7-day barium meal control showed healing of the rupture.
