Bronchobiliary fistula complicating oriental cholangiohepatitis.
Bronchio biliary fistula in adults is a rare event defined by the passage of bile into the bronchus and the sputum (biloptysis).Typically these lesions occur in the congenital form, as a result of thoracoabdominal trauma, or in rare instances as a result of iatrogenic injury or long-standing biliary tract disease and obstruction. In this paper, we report a novel case of a fatal bronchobiliary fistula that developed in a 67-year-old Chinese male with Oriental cholangiohepatitis. To our knowledge, this is the first case report of a bronchobiliary fistula complicating the clinical management of a patient with this disease.
Howman
S F
SF
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
Feng
T L
TL
Chamberlain
R S
RS
Groeger
J S
JS
Blumgart
L H
LH