The treatment of pectus excavatum

developed

thyroid

adenoma.

1 leukemia.

carcinoma.

I

thyroid

1 craniopharyngioma

In

15

patients

a11d 2 mixed tumor of the salivary gland. l‘herr were no thyroid tumors noted in 4 17 children treated with radium.

gl-oup--H.

It ports

~:O\IPLICATIONS

is concluded the concept

pituiturv I~MY be S iehcr

that this evidence sup that exposure of the

and thyroid glands to x-radiation highly carcinogenic.-Williunl K.

THORAX ~'HE

THE.PTMENT

OF

Six patients illg in operated

age

with

EXAVATUM.

PECTU~

E. hf. Nurrsor~. Canad. 141. 1966.

J.

Y:138-

Surg.

und

pectus

excavatum

thorax

\lov.

PECTUS

C.

section brought

der the sternal plate to \%‘irr traction was applied

SYABILIZX~ION OPEHA~.IONS

rating und 113. 1966.

OF OK

E.

.rHu

developing

secwere

at the condrotogether unkeep it lifted. to the stermmr

CHEST.

Nerrtc,.

Chirurg

I)?:

IxE.Aw.

.4

A.

EuvHwEhm

~AHATHhCHEAL

Hnrwitz.

cYS.1

R.

Conrud,

Srltxge, Jr. und E. A. Orhrton. & Cardiovasc. Surg. 51: 1966. authors present the old bahv admitted cvanos~s

and

J.

history I)ecause

dyspnra.

of ;I 3 of ill-

Au

en,rr-

genc~

right lower lobectomv was dour for lobar emphysenla. Respiratorv difficulties continued and studies revealed a retrotrachrat mass. A paratracheal cyst with relief of svml’tolns.-u’iIlia,,l

was

rrnloved 1.. Rilit,r

In a stud! chvlothorax

10, 1966. of 11 patients 3 c’ascs were

trauma of thr thorax. after thoracic operations.

having caused

tramuatic I,\ bhult

while 8 occurred Five patients were aspriation. operativta

cured I,\ repeated treatment was successful in 4 cases. and died of other complications. 2 patients Ligation ot the thoracic closru-e of a chylous fistula

duct or direct are emphasized

if conservativr treatment is not sufficient during the first week. In :I 10 ulouth old a chylous cyst developed in the infant

THOHAX

FUNNEL

Surg.

after bronchoscopy fur bodv.--Edu;urd 1. Brr-

LOBAH

TO

OX:UAHY

10:103-1

A. Montupmi

for 4 or ii wreks.-C.

Slim

Chir.

196.5.

of the sternum and xiphoid 3rd or 4th rih cartilages

uot resected but. after btrrnal junction. were

Arch.

'THk

S.

M.

EXCAVA-

Surtori.

aged 6. 7 and 19 years upon with a mt~thod of resection. transverse wedge

Three patients were operated lllultiple cartilage osteotomv tiorr. The

OF

ad

54:100-108.

Yucorlhiua

I~YPEH.L.HOPHIC

creasing

to the sternrun.

have been followed for up to 6 vears. and the results have been uniformI\ satisfactory with no evidence of rrcurrrnce.-Colin C. Fergtrson

()rg.

.l. D.

,!iODIEY IN

THY.

rang-

vears have been a modification

The patients

Gandolji

~OHEI(:N

Ffie complications of foreign hotlv iuhalation as been in 6 patients are rep&-ted. ‘I’hrsr conlplications are asphyxia. lmlg abbcess with fatal hruroptvsis. cvstic bronchirctasis, I,rollchosterrosis. anil plumes-

;\nterior

MAXAGEMEKT

honlro-

38X. 1966.

The month

‘1CI~I. hf.

OF

rernov;ilof forriqn

from 3 to 33 upon employing

tibia1

Rrbr/rutrrr

THA(:HL.OBI(O~(:HIAL

trf the Havitch repair. The modification c,onsists of suturing the detached perichondrial pedicles behind the elevated sternmu 111us producing a firm baffle to the backward displacement of the sternuul. The pectoralis muscles and fascia are sutllred

SUUCAI.

lyophilized

grafts were used as retrosternal support. Hesults were much better ill the second

AFTEH

Flem37: 10%

F.

In a series of 27 patients having funnel chest 2 different methods of fixation of the sternum after mobilization were used. In 12 cases Kirschner wires were employed.

left Ilpper thorax after operation for dor~blr aortic arch. After extirpation of the c>st the coIIrst> was Ilnc,\.t,ntflll.--H. Reisrr~crt~t~

HEART

AND

GREAT

VESSELS