Colo-pleuro-bronchial Fistula Due to Carcinoma of the Colon

Colo-pleural fistula following pneumonectomy

“…Colo-pleural and colo-bronchial fistulae occurring as complications of colonic pathology have been described previously, in relation to locally invasive primary colonic carcinoma [1,2], diverticular disease [3], Chron's colitis [4] and strangulated diaphragmatic hernias [5]. We believe that our case is the first description of a communication between the colon and a pneumonectomy space.…”

Colobronchial fistula: the pathogenesis, clinical presentations, diagnosis and treatment

“…Even though medicine has been developed quickly, the mortality of CBF isn't reduced recently. There were 3 (13,24,30) There is a limitation in this study. Owning to the low morbidity of this disease, most of the data in this study comes from the literature.…”

“…Based on the anatomical location of fistula and different causes, all the CBF cases were classified into four different types. Type I, CBF secondary to the adhesion among colon, diaphragm and lung (20 cases) (1,(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(19)(20)(21)(22)29): both the colon and lung directly adhere to diaphragm and the fistula forms between colon and lung through diaphragm; type II, CBF secondary to diaphragmatic hernia (8 cases) (2,3,17,18,23,24): the colon goes through diaphragm to form diaphragmatic hernia, directly adheres to lung tissue and forms fistula; type III, CBF secondary to sub diaphragmatic abscess or empyema (7 cases) (4,5,(25)(26)(27)(28)30): the colon and lung tissue fistula connect indirectly through the sub diaphragmatic or pleural abscess; type VI, CBF secondary to colon interposition (2 cases, Figure 2) (31,32).…”

“…For type IV, all 2 cases accepted colonic interposition ( Table 1). There were 30 cases (2,4,(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(12)(13)(14)16,17,(19)(20)(21)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29)(30)(31)(32) with the left side fistula and 7 cases (1,3,5,11,15,18,22) with the right side fistula.…”