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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 92, 890-893, Copyright © 1986 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association

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Pulmonary resection in the prone position for suppurative lung disease in children

AA Conlan, DG Moyes, J Schutz, M Scoccianti, E Abramor and H Levy

Lung resection for suppurative inflammatory disease is hazardous in children whose small airway diameter precludes the use of standard methods of bronchial separation. A prospective evaluation of the prone position for thoracotomy in 17 children referred for operation with severe inflammatory disease was done. Bronchography showed whole lung bronchiectasis eight, destroyed lung in three, and lobar bronchiectasis five. Pulmonary resections performed with the child prone included left pneumonectomy (nine), right pneumonectomy (four), lingulectomy with lower lobectomy (two), and other lobectomy (two). No endobronchial or intrapleural spillage occurred. One child required reexploration for bleeding and one child developed a postoperative empyema that ultimately caused death. The remaining 16 children were discharged within 8 days of operation, and follow-up of 1 to 18 months records favorable progress.

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