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Angiology
Investigators at University of Barcelona publish new data on angiology
January 15th, 2008
"A 47-year-old man was admitted with recurrent autolimited bleeding arising from a cervical tracheostoma made 2 years earlier during a total laryngectomy. Stomal recurrence of the past laryngeal cancer invading the neighboring innominate artery was diagnosed by angiographic computer tomography and bronchoscopic biopsies," scientists in Barcelona, Spain report. "The malignant tracheostoma-innominate fistula was approached through an extended transversal supraclavicular incision, bilateral hemiclaviculectomy, and manubriectomy. It was treated with an anterior mediastinal tracheostomy with omental major transposition, right latissimus dorsi myocutaneous flap for tissue...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-01-15)
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