Clinical Evaluation of Thoracoplasty

흉곽 성형술의 임상적 고찰

The 242 patients were operated due to chronic empyema in Hanyang University Hospital From Jan, 1983 to Aug, 1991, we operated 17 patients by modified.Schede`s thoracoplasty with myoplasty and we concluded to next scentences. 1. The age of patients were varied from 28 to 65[Average 39.1] and male preponderance was seen[more than 3 times]. 2. The preoperative cause of disease were tuberculosis in 14 patients[3 patients were associated with aspergillosis, and 1 patient was associated vrith actinomycosis], lung abscess in 2 patients, and haemophilia in 1 patient. 3. The Preoperative duration of empyema were varied from 1 month to 30 years[Average 49.8 month], and the duration from pulmonary resection to thoracoplasty were 1 month to 13.5 years[Average 55 month] except 3 patients, who were operated pneunectomy with thoracoplasty at the same time. 4. The total number of thoracoplasty were 19, because in 2 patients, we operated 2 steps, and we failed in 6 cases, so the success rate was 68.5%. 5. In failure analysis of 6 cases, the cause were obliteration failure in 3 cases, inadequete drainage in 1 case, and in the other 1 case was mixed type. 6. From 1990 to 1991, there were no death associated with operation and there were 1 failure, so the success rate was greatly improved. 7. The bronchopleural fistula or spontaneous rupture of trachea were seen in 12 cases, and the success rate was high in absent cases.