Esophageo pleural fistula due to esophageal cancer
Author(s) -
Ruchi Sachdeva,
Sandeep Sachdeva
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
the journal of association of chest physicians
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2320-9089
pISSN - 2320-8775
DOI - 10.4103/2320-8775.146848
Subject(s) - medicine , hydropneumothorax , fistula , surgery , chest pain , esophageal cancer , cancer , pneumothorax
A 61-year-old male admitted in chest clinic with complaints of left-sided chest pain, sudden onset breathlessness, and cough since last 15 days. Patient was anex-smoker with no past history of tuberculosis. He was diagnosed with esophageal cancer and received radiotherapy 1 year back. On chest X-ray, left-sided hydropneumothorax was found and intercostal drainage insertion was done. A week later patient complained of extrusion of food particles into intercostal drainage bag. On evaluation, esophageopleural (EP) fistula was confirmed
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