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| Year : 2021 | Volume
: 26
| Issue : 2 | Page : 123-125 |
Surgical occlusion of leaking bronchus by a serratus anterior flap in a child with langerhans cell histiocytosis
Lokavarapu Manoj Joshua1, Ashok Rijhwani2, Manish Kumar Gupta2, Enono Yhoshu2, Gyanendra Chaudhary2
1 Department of Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India
2 Department of Paediatric Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Lokavarapu Manoj Joshua
Department of Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand
India
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DOI: 10.4103/jiaps.JIAPS_66_20
Langerhans cell histiocytosis is an uncommon disease of childhood. Intrathoracic transposition flaps have been described for a management of number of conditions. We discuss our experience of the use of serratus anterior flap for the obliteration of a pulmonary bulla with a communicating airway, in a 1½-year-old pediatric patient with multisystem Langerhans cell histiocytosis who presented with recurrent pneumothorax with empyema due to rupture of bullae.
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