Surgical occlusion of leaking bronchus by a serratus anterior flap in a child with langerhans cell histiocytosis
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Gyanendra Chaudhary; Lokavarapu Manoj Joshua; Ashok Rijhwani; Manish Kumar Gupta; Enono Yhoshu
- Source
- Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons, Vol 26, Iss 2, Pp 123-125 (2021)
Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
pneumothorax
Bronchopleural fistula
lcsh:Surgery
Case Report
Serratus anterior flap
langerhans cell histiocytosis
Langerhans cell histiocytosis
Occlusion
medicine
Bronchus
bronchopleural fistula
business.industry
lcsh:RJ1-570
lcsh:Pediatrics
lcsh:RD1-811
respiratory system
medicine.disease
Empyema
Surgery
respiratory tract diseases
medicine.anatomical_structure
Pneumothorax
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
serratus anterior flap
emphysematous bullae
business
Airway
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1998-3891
0971-9261
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.