PURPOSE To evaluate the usefulness of selective computed tomography (CT) angiography in preventing severe complications, such as spinal cord injury and broncho- esophageal fistula, during the transcatheter arterial embolization or infusion chemotherapy for thoracic diseases. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data from 28 patients with thoracic diseases were retrospectively analyzed in terms of selective ...

Background . Malignant dysphagia caused by the extrinsic compression of esophagus and esophageal anastomoses is a rare complication malignant neoplasms. Studies on safety efficacy stenting for extra-organ have contradictory results. The aim study was to analyze life expectancy complications after in patients with anastomoses. Material Methods. From 2011 2019, 19 neoplasms underwent ultrasound-g...

Tracheoesophageal fistula most commonly occurs as a complication of prolonged tracheal intubation. The incidence decreased after the use of low pressure and high volume endotracheal cuffs, but the intensive care units continue to provide such cases. The abnormal tracheoesophageal communication causes pulmonary contamination (with severe suppuration) and impossibility to feed the patient. The pr...

A 45-year-old man complaining of cough, dyspnea, and difficulty in swallowing was referred to our hospital. Chest CT scan showed a mediastinal mass compressing the trachea. He was diagnosed with poorly differentiated lung carcinoma by percutaneous needle biopsy. Bronchoscopy and upper gastrointestinal endoscopy revealed a tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF). Long-lasting febrile neutropenia made it...

Esophagopleural fistula (EPF) is considered to be a rare condition, usually occurring after pneumonectomy. When it does occur, it is accompanied by significant morbidity and the associated mortality is high [1]. We describe the case of a 44-year-oldman with chronic active hepatitis B complicated by cirrhosis. While awaiting orthotopic liver transplantation, the patient had an esophageal varicea...

Isolated Crohn's disease of the esophagus is rare, and accurate diagnosis and treatment in its early course are difficult. Most cases are often found very late, when severe strictures or other complications have occurred. We report the case of a male 60-year-old patient with complaints of progressive dysphagia for more than two months and the sudden appearance of heartburn for seven consecutive...

BACKGROUND Synovial sarcoma (SS) is an uncommon malignant neoplasm arising from primitive pluripotential mesenchyme primarily affecting the soft tissues of the extremities. Rarely other locations are involved, including the mediastinum. CASE REPORT After treatment for mediastinal SS by surgical resection, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy, an 11-year-old boy developed an esophageal strictur...

The injection of autologous free fat obtained by suction-assisted lipectomy for the correction of soft tissue defects is a common procedure in plastic surgery. This procedure has also been used to prevent aspiration after vocal fold paralysis [1], and to treat vesicoureteral reflux [2]. Tracheo-esophageal fistula may present as an isolated defect or it may be associated with esophageal atresia....

was erosion of the patient’s nasogastric tube through the anterior esophageal wall into the trachea. The finding that the defect was larger on the esophageal side than on the tracheal side makes bronchoscopy an unlikely cause. None of the other common causes of TEF in adults (radiation therapy, trauma, corrosive burn, malignancy, congenital defect, or tuberculosis) apply to this patient. There ...

Atrioesophageal fistula is an extremely rare but often fatal late complication of atrial fibrillation ablation procedures resulting from massive thermal injury to the esophagus and surrounding structures. Causes of death include cerebral air embolism, massive gastrointestinal bleeding, and septic shock. Because of its exceptionally low rate of occurrence, no predictors of lesion development hav...