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Broncho-mediastinal fistula following perforation of the oesophagus
M Meysman1, M Noppen, G Delvaux
1Department of Internal Medicine, Academic Hospital University of Brussels, Belgium.
Respirology (Carlton, Vic.)
|September 1, 1996
Abstract:
We present a 63-year old female with mediastinitis following an esophageal perforation, possibly favoured by an oesophageal motility-disorder and the use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, who developed a broncho-mediastinal fistula in the left main bronchus. She was successfully treated with intravenous antibiotics, a cervical oesophagostomy and secondary isoperistaltic coloplasty.