Successful Conservative Management of Benign Gastro-Bronchial Fistula After Intrathoracic Esophagogastrostomy

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1036-1038

  Bona, Davide ^a   Sarli, Dario ^a   Saino, Greta ^a   Quarenghi, Matteo ^b   Bonavina, Luigi ^a  

^a IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN DONATO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CODEINE; DIATRIZOATE; METAL; TISSUE ADHESIVE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; BRONCHUS FISTULA; CASE REPORT; CATHETER REMOVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; COUGHING; DEVICE REMOVAL; DEVICE THERAPY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENTERIC FEEDING; ESOPHAGOGASTROSTOMY; ESOPHAGUS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PATIENT REFERRAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; STOMACH FISTULA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

BRONCHIAL FISTULA; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; GASTRIC FISTULA; GASTROSTOMY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; STENTS;

EID: 34548043712     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.04.043     Document Type: Article

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