%0 Journal Article
%T Surgical management of tracheoesophageal fistula
%A Ashok Muniappan
%A Asishana Osho
%A Cameron Wright
%A Uma Sachdeva
%J Archive of "Annals of Cardiothoracic Surgery".
%D 2018
%R 10.21037/acs.2018.03.06
%X The patient is a 54-year-old female who suffered smoke inhalational injury during a house fire. She required prolonged intubation and mechanical ventilation and eventually underwent open tracheostomy tube placement. In the setting of recurrent pneumonia, she was diagnosed with a tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF). An attempt at TEF closure with esophageal clips was unsuccessful. A transcervical TEF repair was performed at an outside institution with a limited tracheal resection
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5900078/