FATAL HEMORRHAGE DUE TO TRACHEAL-ESOPHAGEAL-AORTIC FISTULA IN A PATIENT WITH DOUBLE AORTIC ARCH
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1) Department of Thoracic Surgery, Morelli Hospital, Sondalo (SO), Italy.
2) Department of Vascular Surgery, Morelli Hospital, Sondalo (SO), Italy.
Disclosure: The author has declared no conflicts of interest.
Received: 04.12.15 Accepted: 25.12.15
Citation: doi:10.5455/ijsm.doubleaorticarch
Abstract:
We report a case of a18-year-old male with double aortic arch who underwent surgery for bleeding from a left bulbar cavernous angioma of the medulla oblongata. A tracheostomy tube was positioned but after several days the patient died because of a tracheo-esophageal fistula with left aortic arch erosion due to the decubitus of the tube cuff
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