H-type Tracheoesophageal Fistula in a Newborn: Determining the Exact Position of Fistula by Intra-operative Guidewire Placement

H-type tracheoesophageal fistula is a rare congenital anomaly that is seldom diagnosed in the neonatal age. Documenting it and then locating it at surgery are both difficult. A case is presented to highlight the diagnostic and therapeutic utility of trans-fistula guidewire placement.

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Autores principales: Antabak, Anko, Luetic, Tomislav, Caleta, Drago, Romic, Ivan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: EL-MED-Pub 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4420454/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26023507
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Luetic, Tomislav
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spelling pubmed-44204542015-05-28 H-type Tracheoesophageal Fistula in a Newborn: Determining the Exact Position of Fistula by Intra-operative Guidewire Placement Antabak, Anko Luetic, Tomislav Caleta, Drago Romic, Ivan J Neonatal Surg Case Report H-type tracheoesophageal fistula is a rare congenital anomaly that is seldom diagnosed in the neonatal age. Documenting it and then locating it at surgery are both difficult. A case is presented to highlight the diagnostic and therapeutic utility of trans-fistula guidewire placement. EL-MED-Pub 2014-07-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4420454/ /pubmed/26023507 Text en Copyright © 2014 Antabak et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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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Antabak, Anko
Luetic, Tomislav
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H-type Tracheoesophageal Fistula in a Newborn: Determining the Exact Position of Fistula by Intra-operative Guidewire Placement
title H-type Tracheoesophageal Fistula in a Newborn: Determining the Exact Position of Fistula by Intra-operative Guidewire Placement
title_full H-type Tracheoesophageal Fistula in a Newborn: Determining the Exact Position of Fistula by Intra-operative Guidewire Placement
title_fullStr H-type Tracheoesophageal Fistula in a Newborn: Determining the Exact Position of Fistula by Intra-operative Guidewire Placement
title_full_unstemmed H-type Tracheoesophageal Fistula in a Newborn: Determining the Exact Position of Fistula by Intra-operative Guidewire Placement
title_short H-type Tracheoesophageal Fistula in a Newborn: Determining the Exact Position of Fistula by Intra-operative Guidewire Placement
title_sort h-type tracheoesophageal fistula in a newborn: determining the exact position of fistula by intra-operative guidewire placement
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4420454/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26023507
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