Lang S J, Mulder D G
Department of Surgery, University of California at Los Angeles Medical Center 90024.
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 1987 Nov;94(5):788-90.
Congenital esophagobronchial fistula occurring in infancy and childhood is a well-recognized entity necessitating urgent surgical treatment. Persistence of such a communication into adulthood is rare and would seem possible only if the tract were small so that aspiration into the lung could be tolerated. The case of a 38-year-old woman is presented in this report who was cured of lifelong symptoms of aspiration by surgical division of a presumed congenital esophagobronchial fistula.
