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Epiphrenic diverticula, esophageal carcinoma and esophagopleural fistula
1Department of Internal Medicine, 12 de Octubre University Hospital, Carretera de Andalucia, Km 5,400, Madrid 28041, Spain.
Hepato-Gastroenterology
|July 21, 2001
Abstract:
A case report of a patient with two epiphrenic diverticula and a squamous cell carcinoma within one of them is presented. Moreover, a pleural empyema and an esophagopleural fistula appeared following the neoplasic diverticulum perforation. Only a few cases have been previously described in the English-language literature. An additional one is now presented.