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Isolated, contained esophagobronchial fistula complicating esophagogastrectomy
1Joseph B. Whitehead Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|October 1, 1988
Abstract:
Esophagobronchial fistula as a complication of esophagogastrectomy is rare. We report our experience with a patient who sustained an esophagogastric anastomotic leak with fistulization to the right mainstem bronchus without free rupture into the pleural space.