LATE SPONTANEOUS CHEST WALL BLEEDING AFTER OPEN THORACIC WINDOWFOR EMPYEMA
Abstract:
We report a 47-year-old male referred to our unit for a pleural empyema, with no response to antibiotic treatment and drainage, who underwent a thoracomyoplasty. Due to the recurrence of the empyema we have performed a modified open thoracic window (OTW) through re-opening of the operative wound. The patient was discharged with a clean and granulating wound, with obvious retraction and reepithelisation. 6 years later he was readmitted for an active bleeding from a small artery arising from the granulation and secondary epithelisation area, which required emergency local hemosthasis and blood transfusion
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