Spontaneous esophageal-pleural fistula

Spontaneous esophageal-pleural fistula (EPF) is a rare entity. We describe a case in a middle-aged female who presented with severe retrosternal chest pain and shortness of breadth. Chest computed tomography showed right EPF and hydropneumothorax. She was managed conservatively keeping the chest tub...

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Autores principales: Vyas, Sameer, Prakash, Mahesh, Kaman, Lileshwar, Bhardwaj, Nidhi, Khandelwal, Niranjan
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3213721/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22084548
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.85696
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author Vyas, Sameer
Prakash, Mahesh
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description Spontaneous esophageal-pleural fistula (EPF) is a rare entity. We describe a case in a middle-aged female who presented with severe retrosternal chest pain and shortness of breadth. Chest computed tomography showed right EPF and hydropneumothorax. She was managed conservatively keeping the chest tube drainage and performing feeding jejunostomy. A brief review of the imaging finding and management of EPF is discussed.
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spelling pubmed-32137212011-11-14 Spontaneous esophageal-pleural fistula Vyas, Sameer Prakash, Mahesh Kaman, Lileshwar Bhardwaj, Nidhi Khandelwal, Niranjan Lung India Case Report Spontaneous esophageal-pleural fistula (EPF) is a rare entity. We describe a case in a middle-aged female who presented with severe retrosternal chest pain and shortness of breadth. Chest computed tomography showed right EPF and hydropneumothorax. She was managed conservatively keeping the chest tube drainage and performing feeding jejunostomy. A brief review of the imaging finding and management of EPF is discussed. Medknow Publications 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3213721/ /pubmed/22084548 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.85696 Text en Copyright: © Lung India http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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