Modified placement of cervical drainage tube for anterior cervical spinal surgery
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Shunwu Fan Zi’ang Hu Fengdong Zhao
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2010
Description
Little attention has been paid to the drainage wound scar caused by anterior cervical spine surgery; this causes patients to complain for cosmetic reasons. Therefore, we designed a modified placement of the cervical drainage tube to improve the esthetics. We made a subcutaneous drainage tube with an entry on the inferior-lateral site of the ipsilateral clavicle. No iatrogenic damage occurred due to the placement of the tube; the tube-entry wound healed well, and the scar could be hidden behind the collar or in the shadow of a necklace, thus, these patients were satisfied with the postoperative appearance of the neck.
Eur J Orthop Surg Traumatol (2011) 21:445–448 DOI 10.1007/s00590-010-0725-2 Received: 12 September 2010 / Accepted: 3 November 2010 / Published online: 16 December 2010
