Dr. R. Santosham (Chennai, India): Two short questions. One is in patients who were laserized, did you find more technical difficulty, because our observation has been once laser is used, the tracheal wall gets very much thickened and the area of resection becomes much longer. The other thing is in your tracheoesophageal fistula cases that you showed, our main anxiety is leak from the esophagus...

Purpose. Formation of a tracheoinnominate artery fistula (TIF) and consecutive hemorrhage is a rare and life-threatening complication with high mortality. Warning symptoms can be absent. The current literature contains only few considerations for misleading signs, especially in cases where the contact between the tissue and the cannula is tight. Method and Results. We report two cases of life-t...

Congenital anomalies of the oesophagus were once thought to be relatively rare. Plass in 1919 reported one case and in an exhaustive review of the literature found 136 fully verified cases; he stated that there was some variation in the minor details of the anomaly, but the general picture was uniform -a blind upper pouch ending at a level between the lower border of the larynx and the tracheal...

Though both the anatomy and the symptomatology of the first cases of oesophageal atresia were described in detail more than 250 years ago, it was not until 1941 that the first child suffering from this anomaly was successfully operated upon. The mortality rate diminished rapidly during the following years, and, as methods making successful treatment possible were presented, a campaign was start...

BACKGROUND Tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF) in dogs is a rare disease with only few reports in the literature. This report aims to contribute to the current literature on suitable diagnostic methods for TEF and to provide follow-up information after successful surgical treatment. CASE PRESENTATION A seven-month-old intact female Spanish Water Dog was presented for further investigation of recu...

INTRODUCTION In properly selected patients, the use of a voice prosthesis placed in a surgically created tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF) is a successful and desirable method of postlaryngectomy vocal rehabilitation. The long-term success rate for tracheoesophageal speech is high, ranging from 70% to 95%. Unfortunately, some patients develop complications that include: migration and progressive ...

Abstract Background Foreign body in the esophagus is most commonly observed at cervical level and often detected pediatric patients. Esophagoscopy definitive diagnosis treatment instrument foreign ingestion, procedure should not be delayed to avoid serious complications such as late tracheoesophageal fistula perforation. While sore throat, difficulty swallowing, hypersalivation are main complai...

DESCRIPTION We report a case of a 60-year-old woman who developed a tracheal fistula 20 months after mediastinal radiation while being treatedwith bevacizumab. She presentedwith a large right-sided mediastinal mass given a diagnosis of stage IIIB adenocarcinoma. She was treated with definitive thoracic radiation (figure 1) and a concurrent chemotherapy, including both cisplatin and docetaxel. E...

rious complications after esophagectomy, and it occurs in 5%–29% of patients [1]. Although there are no standardizedmethods for treating intrathoracic leakage, the treatment options include surgery, external drainage, and endoscopic treatment. A 68-year-oldmanwas hospitalizedwith a mild cough associatedwith oral intake. He had been diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus 18 mont...