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Suprasternal approach for impending tracheo-innominate artery fistula

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We report preventive innominate artery division or ligation through a suprasternal approach for impending tracheo-innominate artery fistula (TIF) with recurrent airway oozing in patients with severe neuromuscular disease. Our approach is less invasive and a favorable procedure as preventive surgery for impending TIF.

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  1. Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Shizuoka Children’s Hospital, 860 Urushiyama, Aoi-Ku, Shizuoka, 420-8660, Japan

    Yoshifumi Fujimoto, Keiichi Hirose, Noritaka Ota, Masaya Murata, Yujiro Ide, Yuko Tosaka, Maiko Tachi & Kisaburo Sakamoto

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Fujimoto, Y., Hirose, K., Ota, N. et al. Suprasternal approach for impending tracheo-innominate artery fistula. Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 58, 480–484 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11748-010-0598-7

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