1992 Volume 14 Issue 2 Pages 194-200
A 38 year-old male was referred to our hospital due to recurrent hemoptysis. He had experienced pneumonia at age 26 and recurrent hemoptysis during the last 3 years. As his feces were positive for occult blood, he underwent upper gastrointestinal endoscopy and a fistula was found at the lower portion of the esophagus. After confirming the communication between the esophagus and the bronchus by esophagography and bronchography, fistulectomy and right lower lobectomy were performed. The operative and post-operative histopathological findings of the resected specimen were compatible with congenital esophagobronchial fistula.
