Atlas of Thoracic Reconstruction

Section I General principles: preoperative evaluation; anaesthetic management of complex problems; intraoperative and postopearative pain control; monitoring and postoperative management. Section II Chest wall reconstruction: part I - general principles - historical aspects, embryology, anatomy, and physiology of the chest wall, blood supply to the skin of the chest wall, planning the reconstruction; part II - mobilization of flaps - latissimus dorsi muscle and musculocutaneous flaps, pectoralis major muscle and musculocutaneous flaps, rectus abdominus muscle and musculocutaneous flaps, trapezius muscle and musculocutaneous flaps, the serratus anterior muscle flaps, the omentum; part III - reconstruction of specific chest wall problems - repair of congenital defects - pectus excavatum, pectus carinatum, Poland's syndrome, sternal clefts, complex defects, management of the dehisced median sternotomy - debridement, directory primary reconstruction, flaps - pectoralis major, rectus abdominis, omentum, latissimus dorsi, repair of major traumatic defects. Section III Management of intra-thoracic problems: trachaeobronchial fistulae and reconstruction - acquired trachaeosophageal fistulae, trachaeobronchial, arterial fistulae - aortobronchial, aortorachaeal, repair of aesophageal fistulae - aortoesophageal fistulae, esophagopleuralcutaneous fistulae, management and reconstruction of empyema spaces - filling with antibiotic solutions and closure, flap closure.