Gastric tube-to-tracheal fistula closed with a latissimus dorsi myocutaneous flap.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
A gastric tube-to-airway fistula is a very rare complication after esophageal reconstruction. A patient with a gastric tube-to-tracheal fistula that developed more than 9 years after surgery for cancer of the cervical esophagus was treated with transposition of a pedicled latissimus dorsi myocutaneous flap. Careful perioperative respiratory management helped save the patient's life.
Medical subject headings
- Carcinoma, Squamous Cell
- Esophageal Neoplasms
- Esophagectomy
- Gastric Fistula
- Postoperative Complications
- Stomach
- Surgical Flaps
- Tracheoesophageal Fistula