Esophagopericardial fistula as a rare complication after total gastrectomy for cancer

BACKGROUND: Esophagopericardial fistula is a rare but life-threatening complication of benign, malignant or traumatic esophageal disease. It is most commonly associated with benign etiology and carries a high mortality rate which increases with delay in diagnosis. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a cas...

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Autores principales: Dafnios, Nikolaos, Anastasopoulos, Georgios, Marinis, Athanasios, Polydorou, Andreas, Gkiokas, Georgios, Fragulidis, Georgios, Athanasopoulos, Panayiotis, Theodosopoulos, Theodosios
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2712474/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19580643
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-7-58
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author Dafnios, Nikolaos
Anastasopoulos, Georgios
Marinis, Athanasios
Polydorou, Andreas
Gkiokas, Georgios
Fragulidis, Georgios
Athanasopoulos, Panayiotis
Theodosopoulos, Theodosios
author_facet Dafnios, Nikolaos
Anastasopoulos, Georgios
Marinis, Athanasios
Polydorou, Andreas
Gkiokas, Georgios
Fragulidis, Georgios
Athanasopoulos, Panayiotis
Theodosopoulos, Theodosios
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description BACKGROUND: Esophagopericardial fistula is a rare but life-threatening complication of benign, malignant or traumatic esophageal disease. It is most commonly associated with benign etiology and carries a high mortality rate which increases with delay in diagnosis. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a case of an esophagopericardial fistula as a rare complication in a 53-year-old male patient, 7 months after total gastrectomy for an adenocarcinoma of the esophagogastric junction. CONCLUSION: The prognosis of esophagopericardial fistula is poor, especially when it is associated with malignancy.
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spelling pubmed-27124742009-07-18 Esophagopericardial fistula as a rare complication after total gastrectomy for cancer Dafnios, Nikolaos Anastasopoulos, Georgios Marinis, Athanasios Polydorou, Andreas Gkiokas, Georgios Fragulidis, Georgios Athanasopoulos, Panayiotis Theodosopoulos, Theodosios World J Surg Oncol Case Report BACKGROUND: Esophagopericardial fistula is a rare but life-threatening complication of benign, malignant or traumatic esophageal disease. It is most commonly associated with benign etiology and carries a high mortality rate which increases with delay in diagnosis. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a case of an esophagopericardial fistula as a rare complication in a 53-year-old male patient, 7 months after total gastrectomy for an adenocarcinoma of the esophagogastric junction. CONCLUSION: The prognosis of esophagopericardial fistula is poor, especially when it is associated with malignancy. BioMed Central 2009-07-06 /pmc/articles/PMC2712474/ /pubmed/19580643 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-7-58 Text en Copyright © 2009 Dafnios et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Dafnios, Nikolaos
Anastasopoulos, Georgios
Marinis, Athanasios
Polydorou, Andreas
Gkiokas, Georgios
Fragulidis, Georgios
Athanasopoulos, Panayiotis
Theodosopoulos, Theodosios
Esophagopericardial fistula as a rare complication after total gastrectomy for cancer
title Esophagopericardial fistula as a rare complication after total gastrectomy for cancer
title_full Esophagopericardial fistula as a rare complication after total gastrectomy for cancer
title_fullStr Esophagopericardial fistula as a rare complication after total gastrectomy for cancer
title_full_unstemmed Esophagopericardial fistula as a rare complication after total gastrectomy for cancer
title_short Esophagopericardial fistula as a rare complication after total gastrectomy for cancer
title_sort esophagopericardial fistula as a rare complication after total gastrectomy for cancer
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2712474/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19580643
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-7-58
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