Lung Middle Lobe Laceration Needing Lobectomy as Complication of Nuss Bar Removal

Table 1

Complications after Nuss bar removal identified in the literature. The two cases of death were due to heart lesions.

	Nuss	Nyboe	Zhang	Molins	Notrica	Bilgi	Jemielity	Haecker	Sakakibara	Bouchard	Hebra	Leonhardt	Carlucci	Total
Wound infection	1													1
Pleural effusion						2								2
Pneumothorax	3	5				3								11
Hemorrhagic complications														17
Aortic hemorrhage							1							1
Heart lesion								1	1	1	1			4
Intercostal artery lesion			1	1										2
Sternal erosion					1									1
Lung injury												1	1	2
Hemothorax		3	1											4
Bleeding on the bar tract						2								2
Bleeding without identifiable source						1								1
Death										1	1			2
Others						35								35

Note. In the 35 complications reported by Bilgi et al. and named here as “others,” they considered subcutaneous drain insertions () as a complication, and they also reported 6 chest tube insertions without mentioning any reason for that.