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Bronchobiliary fistula complicating oriental cholangiohepatitis
S F Howman1, T L Feng, R S Chamberlain
1Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
Abstract:
Bronchio biliary fistula in adults is a rare event defined by the passage of bile into the bronchus and the sputum (biloptysis).Typically these lesions occur in the congenital form, as a result of thoracoabdominal trauma, or in rare instances as a result of iatrogenic injury or long-standing biliary tract disease and obstruction. In this paper, we report a novel case of a fatal bronchobiliary fistula that developed in a 67-year-old Chinese male with Oriental cholangiohepatitis. To our knowledge, this is the first case report of a bronchobiliary fistula complicating the clinical management of a patient with this disease.
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