1990 Volume 12 Issue 5 Pages 536-539
A 61-year-old woman underwent right pleuropneumonectomy for malignant mesothelioma. The chest drainage tube was removed four days after the operation. Although she initially did well, bronchopleural fistula developed at the bronchial margin about three weeks after the operation. A chest drainage tube was inserted. Two weeks late, oxycell cotton was put on the bronchopleural fistula and methyl cyanoacrylate was injected over the oxycell cotton through the instrumentation channel of a bronchofiberscope. Methyl cyanoacrylate was expectorated one day after, but the air leakage stopped four days late. The chest drainage tube was removed 13 days after the injection of methyl cyanoacrylate. The result suggests that methyl cyanoacrylate is useful for the control of bronchopleuralfistula.
