The Journal of the Florida Medical Association
Volume 81, Issue 12, 1994, Pages 815-817

Complications of plombage in a Cuban exile. (Article)

Sultan M.* , Kelly M.E. , Hilliard G. , Horowitz M.D.
  • a Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, University of Miami, Jackson Memorial Hospital., United States
  • b Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, University of Miami, Jackson Memorial Hospital., United States
  • c Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, University of Miami, Jackson Memorial Hospital., United States
  • d Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, University of Miami, Jackson Memorial Hospital., United States

Abstract

Collapse of the affected lung, or plombage, was a common operative treatment for tuberculosis in the United States in the 1930s and 40s. Due to the lack of antitubercular drugs, this practice continued in Cuba into the 1950s. After 41 years the plombage material in an exile patient was found to be infected. This resulted in the bronchopleural fistula which required a pectoralis muscle flap to close. Physicians should be aware that many Cuban exiles have been treated for tuberculosis via plombage and are at risk for similar complications.

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artificial pneumothorax pleura disease Prostheses and Implants methacrylic acid methyl ester Pleural Diseases Thoracoplasty Collapse Therapy Cutaneous Fistula Methylmethacrylates human middle aged Humans lung tuberculosis male Tuberculosis, Pulmonary case report Article infection lung resection prostheses and orthoses thorax surgery bronchus fistula Methylmethacrylate Pneumonectomy fistula Bronchial Fistula skin fistula
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ISSN: 00154148
Original Language: English