Surgical treatment of five patients with aortobronchial fistula in the aortic arch

Aortobronchial fistula (ABF) is a rare condition that is almost always fatal in the absence of prompt and proper treatment. However, treatment remains challenging, particularly in the aortic arch. We present six operations for 5 such patients, in which no in-hospital deaths occurred. One patient wit...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Annals of thoracic surgery 2004-05, Vol.77 (5), p.1821-1823
Hauptverfasser: Nishizawa, Junichiro, Matsumoto, Masahiko, Sugita, Takaaki, Matsuyama, Katsuhiko, Tokuda, Yoshiyuki, Yoshida, Kazunori, Matsuo, Takehiko
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