Prostheses and Adjuncts in Chest Wall Surgery

Konstantinos Papagiannopoulos of the St James University Hospital in Leeds, UK, reviews prostheses and adjuncts for chest wall reconstruction. He discusses the pathologies that require chest wall reconstruction and focuses on the benefits and drawbacks of the different materials from which prostheses can be constructed.

This presentation was originally given during the SCTS Ionescu University program at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland. This content is published with the permission of SCTS. Please click here for more information on SCTS educational programs.