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Successful management of secondary aortoesophageal fistula
J D Luketich1, K E Sommers, B P Griffith
1Presbyterian Hospital, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pennsylvania 15213-3221, USA.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|December 1, 1996
Abstract:
Aortoesophageal fistula is a rare complication after thoracic aortic aneurysm repair. Six previously reported cases of aortoesophageal fistula management have been uniformly fatal. We present our successful management and review the literature of this topic.