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| Year : 1994 | Volume
: 40
| Issue : 2 | Page : 83-4 |
Acquired tracheo-oesophageal fistula.
CP Shah, ME Yeolekar, FK Pardiwala
Dept of Medicine, KEM Hospital, Parel, Bombay.
Correspondence Address:
C P Shah
Dept of Medicine, KEM Hospital, Parel, Bombay.
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PMID: 0008737559 
Acquired tracheo-oesophageal fistula is rare. The most common causes are tuberculosis and malignancy. Here we report a patient who had come with dysphagia and aspiration pneumonia with paratracheal lymphnodes on X-ray chest and was diagnosed to have a tracheo-bronchial fistula on barium studies. Transtumoral intubation by pull-through method was carried out.
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