Tracheo-oesophageal fistula after palliative treatment of oesophageal cancer.
We present a case of an 86-year-old male who presented with severe pneumonia in the context of having undergone radiotherapy and then an oesophageal stent insertion for palliation of oesophageal cancer. He was diagnosed with a tracheo-oesophageal fistula (TOF) which was successfully managed by deploying a second stent within the first stent.
Professorial and Oesophagogastric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia.
Peter W
PW
Hamer
Professorial and Oesophagogastric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia.
Ewen A
EA
Griffiths
Professorial and Oesophagogastric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia.
Peter G
PG
Devitt
Oesophageal cancer; oesophageal stent; radiotherapy; tracheo-oesophageal fistula (TOF)