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Manoranjan Dash1, Thitta Mohanty1, Jyoti Patnaik1
1Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Shrirama Chandra Bhanj Medical College, Cuttack, Odisha, India.
Abstract:
Esophago-pleural fistula (EPF) is an uncommon condition, despite of an anatomical proximity of these structures. Causes of EPF include pneumonectomy for suppurative or tubercular disease of lung and carcinoma lung, malignancy of esophagus. Benign EPF is rare and may be due to trauma or infection. The most common infectious cause is tuberculosis. Spontaneous development of fistula between esophagus and pleura is rarely described in literature. We, hereby present a spontaneous case of such a rare entity in a middle-aged male.
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