Bronchoesophageal Fistula due to Esophageal Tuberculosis

This is a case report regarding a patient who presented with 6 months of dysphagia and subsequent 40-pound weight loss. The patient underwent imaging, suggestive of pulmonary TB. Further workup of his dysphagia with esophagogastroduodenoscopy and bronchoscopy revealed two bronchoesophageal fistulas....

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Autores principales: Desai, Pathik, Mayenkar, Prachi, Northrup, Thomas F., Mallela, Vijaya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6451813/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31019816
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/6537437
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author Desai, Pathik
Mayenkar, Prachi
Northrup, Thomas F.
Mallela, Vijaya
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description This is a case report regarding a patient who presented with 6 months of dysphagia and subsequent 40-pound weight loss. The patient underwent imaging, suggestive of pulmonary TB. Further workup of his dysphagia with esophagogastroduodenoscopy and bronchoscopy revealed two bronchoesophageal fistulas. Tuberculosis is an important differential diagnosis of prolonged dysphagia in immunocompetent patients.
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spelling pubmed-64518132019-04-24 Bronchoesophageal Fistula due to Esophageal Tuberculosis Desai, Pathik Mayenkar, Prachi Northrup, Thomas F. Mallela, Vijaya Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report This is a case report regarding a patient who presented with 6 months of dysphagia and subsequent 40-pound weight loss. The patient underwent imaging, suggestive of pulmonary TB. Further workup of his dysphagia with esophagogastroduodenoscopy and bronchoscopy revealed two bronchoesophageal fistulas. Tuberculosis is an important differential diagnosis of prolonged dysphagia in immunocompetent patients. Hindawi 2019-03-21 /pmc/articles/PMC6451813/ /pubmed/31019816 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/6537437 Text en Copyright © 2019 Pathik Desai et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under 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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title_full Bronchoesophageal Fistula due to Esophageal Tuberculosis
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title_full_unstemmed Bronchoesophageal Fistula due to Esophageal Tuberculosis
title_short Bronchoesophageal Fistula due to Esophageal Tuberculosis
title_sort bronchoesophageal fistula due to esophageal tuberculosis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6451813/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31019816
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/6537437
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