[Treatment of chronic aspiration by Lindeman's tracheosophageal diversion procedure]

Three cases of swallowing disorders have been presented in the course of atrophic lateral sclerosis in two patients, and in the pseudobulbar in one. All patients have been operated on after Lindeman method. It consists in formation of the tracheoesophageal anastomosis--tracheoesophageal diversion. Aim was achieved in all the cases. All patients have been taking food by mouth and recurrences of pneumonia were not observed.