A case of congenital tracheo-oesophageal fistula without oesophageal atresia in an adult is presented. Surgical repair via a right thoracotomy was successfully undertaken. The 13 previously reported cases in English publications are reviewed.

A case of the Goldenhar anomalad is presented with a previously undescribed association with oesophageal atresia and tracheo-oesophageal fistula. This is the second instance of a tracheobronchial-oesophageal communication being found in association with the anomalad. Awareness of this combination may facilitate future diagnosis and treatment of the anomaly.

Abstract Background Both diaphragmatic hernia and thoracic gastropericardial fistula rarely occur simultaneously in patients with radical esophagectomy. Case presentation A 72-year-old man presented to our hospital 1 day of nausea, vomiting acute left chest pain. He had esophagectomy (Sweet approach) for esophageal cancer 18 years ago. Computed tomography (CT) the revealed hernias air collectio...

a 43-year-old man with liver cirrhosis received transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (tips) for the treatment of recurrent variceal bleeding and f3 esophageal varices. during routine follow up liver ultrasound examination, six months after the implantation, tips occlusion was suspected and tips revision was performed. during the revision, moderate to severe stenosis at the hepatic veno...

In a retrospective study of 15 patients who were treated with collapse therapy for pulmonary tuberculosis on an average 30 years previously, we found 16 instances of exudation in the residual pocket: four were sterile and without fistula, ten had bronchial fistulae, one had an esophageal fistula, and one was a tuberculous empyema without fistula. Among the 11 exudations with bronchial or esopha...

OBJECTIVE Patients with advanced hypopharyngeal or cervical esophageal cancer have a comparatively high risk of also developing thoracic esophageal cancer. Pharyngolaryngectomy with total esophagectomy is highly invasive, and few reports about it exist. We examined the postoperative complications and respective countermeasures and prognoses of patients who underwent pharyngolaryngectomy with to...

e present a case report of a 78-year-old man that was dmitted in our Intensive Care Unit after an urgent surgical epair of a stent-grafting endoleak and an aortobronchial stula. Five years before this event, he had been submitted o a thoracic endovascular repair of a descending thoracic orta aneurysm. The immediate post-operative course was uneventful. our days after surgery, the patient develo...

INTRODUCTION Thoracoscopic esophageal atresia (EA) repair was first performed in 1999, but still the technique is treated as one of the most complex pediatric surgical procedures. AIM The study presents a single-center experience and learning curve of thoracoscopic repair of esophageal atresia and tracheo-esophageal (distal) fistula. MATERIAL AND METHODS From 2012 to 2014, 10 consecutive pa...

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Congenital esophageal stenosis is a rare condition that may be associated with other anomalies. Antral web is also a rare congenital condition. Association of both conditions is extremely rare. We present this rare association in preterm baby in whom initially misdiagnosis of esophageal atresia and trachea-esophageal fistula then followed by a dilemma in differentials diagnosis to explain the u...