Combined Type Mediastinitis After Thyroidectomy Managed by Negative Pressure Wound Therapy With Instillation: A Case Report

ePlasty: Vol. 19

Combined Type Mediastinitis After Thyroidectomy Managed by Negative Pressure Wound Therapy With Instillation: A Case Report
Daiki Kitano, MD,^a Yoshitaka Kitamura, MD,^b Koichiro Yonezawa, MD, PhD,^c Wataru Nishio, MD, PhD,^b Shigemichi Iwae, MD, PhD,^c Minoru Nakahara, MD, PhD,^a and Shunsuke Sakakibara, MD, PhD^a,d
^aDepartments of Plastic Surgery; ^bThoracic Surgery; ^cHead and Neck Surgery, Hyogo Cancer Center, Akashi, Hyogo, Japan; and ^dDepartment of Plastic Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
Correspondence: shunsuke@med.kobe-u.ac.jp
Key words: descending necrotizing mediastinitis, poststernotomy mediastinitis, thyroidectomy, negative pressure wound therapy, NPWTi

Figure 1. Debridement operative findings.

Figure 2. Clinical course of negative pressure wound therapy with instillation.