Treatment of Malignant Tracheoesophageal Fistula Due to Histiocytic Lymphoma

Jp, Kelly; Cl, Roper

doi:10.1097/00007611-198409000-00044

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“…Lackner and coworkers described that radiotherapy was administered before the development of the fistula in most patients and that fistula formation followed by chemotherapy alone was extremely uncommon [6,11]; however, 20.7% of the patients developed a fistula after chemotherapy alone in our review of the literature. Moreover, 20.7% of them underwent neither radiotherapy nor chemotherapy before the development of fistula formation [12][13][14][15][16][17]. The fistula of our case might be caused partly by transbronchial biopsy before chemotherapy.…”

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Successful esophageal bypass operation for esophagobronchial fistula following chemotherapy for malignant lymphoma: a case report

et al. 2005

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A 72-year-old man with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at the tracheal bifurcation node received combination chemotherapy and subsequently developed a fistula in spite of remission of the lymphoma. Conservative therapy did not heal the fistula formation, and we chose bypass surgery using a gastric tube without thoracotomy. Ten months postoperatively, there is no evidence of lymphoma relapse and the patient lives a normal life. We consider this procedure as an available treatment for esophagobronchial fistula in case of failure to cure fistula communication by conservative therapy.

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