5 cases of congenital esophagobronchial fistula in adult.

Lim, Chang Young; Choi, Soo Jeon; Lee, Bong Chun; Kim, Dong Soon; Jeon, Woo Ki; Kim, Joung Sook; Lee, Shin Yeong; Oh, Sang Joon; Kwak, Young Tae; Kim, Chang Ho

doi:1993.40.1.52

Tuberc Respir Dis > Volume 40(1); 1993 > Article

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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

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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