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Arteriotracheal fistula in patients treated for lymphoma
P S Dickman1, E Nussbaum, J Z Finkelstein
1Department of Pathology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance 90509.
Pediatric Pathology
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
Exsanguinating hemorrhage is an unusual cause of death in patients who are being treated for neoplasms. We report two cases of adolescents with mediastinal non-Hodgkin's lymphoma who each developed a fistula between the right brachiocephalic trunk and the trachea following mediastinal irradiation and systemic chemotherapy. During the hospital course, the patients had each suffered a respiratory arrest and undergone difficult endotracheal intubation. The tracheal ulcerations at the fistula sites were unsuspected prior to autopsy.