INTRODUCTION:We describe a patient who underwent esophagectomy and gastric interposition, which was complicated post-operatively by mediastinitis and vertebral osteomyelitis. He developed cough and was found to have an endobronchial inflammatory polyp due to migration of a surgical staple into the airway.
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