Tuberc Respir Dis > Volume 40(1); 1993 > Article
Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases 1993;40(1):52-57.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4046/trd.1993.40.1.52    Published online February 1, 1993.
5 cases of congenital esophagobronchial fistula in adult.
Chang Young Lim1, Soo Jeon Choi1, Bong Chun Lee1, Dong Soon Kim1, Woo Ki Jeon2, Joung Sook Kim2, Shin Yeong Lee3, Sang Joon Oh3, Young Tae Kwak3, Chang Ho Kim3
1Department of lnternal Medicine, Inje University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
2Department of Radiology, Inje University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
3Department of Thoracic Surgery, Inje University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
성인에서 발견된 선천성 식도기관지루 5 예
Abstract
Congenital esophagobronchial fistula presented in adult life is rare and usually manifests as recurrent pneumonias or other chronic suppurative complications such as bronciectasis. Most of congenital esophagobronchial fistula can be diagnosed by esophagography and can be cured by fistulectomy and/ or resection of destroyed pulmonary lobes. We recently experienced 5 cases (2 female and 3 male patients) of congenital esophagobronchial fistula (all of them were Braimbridge type I). Mean age of the patients at the time of diagnosis of esophagobronchial fistula was 53.8 year-old (44- 70 year-old) and mean duration of symptoms and complications such as cough after swallowing water, recurrent pneumonia and bronchiectasis was 29 years (12- 50 years). 4 patients were treated by fistulectomy and resection of destroyed lobes with abolition of symptoms. So we report 5 cases of congenital esophagobronchial fistula with review of literatures.
Key Words: Esophagobronchial fistula, Congenital, Adult


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