Acquired bronchoesophageal fistula

Bronchoesophageal fistula in an adult is rarely encountered in clinical practice. Most commonly, they have malignant origin. We report a case of bronchoesophageal fistula secondary to trauma caused by upper gastrointestinal endoscopy. The patient presented with recurrent chest infections and dysphag...

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Autores principales: Aggarwal, Deepak, Mohapatra, Prasanta Raghab, Malhotra, Balbir
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2813111/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20165591
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.45201
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author Aggarwal, Deepak
Mohapatra, Prasanta Raghab
Malhotra, Balbir
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description Bronchoesophageal fistula in an adult is rarely encountered in clinical practice. Most commonly, they have malignant origin. We report a case of bronchoesophageal fistula secondary to trauma caused by upper gastrointestinal endoscopy. The patient presented with recurrent chest infections and dysphagia since he underwent endoscopic procedure for obstructed denture. Barium swallow study revealed fistulous connection between right lower lobe bronchus and esophagus.
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spelling pubmed-28131112010-02-17 Acquired bronchoesophageal fistula Aggarwal, Deepak Mohapatra, Prasanta Raghab Malhotra, Balbir Lung India Case Report Bronchoesophageal fistula in an adult is rarely encountered in clinical practice. Most commonly, they have malignant origin. We report a case of bronchoesophageal fistula secondary to trauma caused by upper gastrointestinal endoscopy. The patient presented with recurrent chest infections and dysphagia since he underwent endoscopic procedure for obstructed denture. Barium swallow study revealed fistulous connection between right lower lobe bronchus and esophagus. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2813111/ /pubmed/20165591 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.45201 Text en © Lung India http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2813111/
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