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Four-decade-old benign tracheomediastinal fistula

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A 70-year-old male with a nagging cough of 40-year duration was evaluated and found to have a tracheomediastinal fistula. He gave history of rigid bronchoscopy 40 years back. He underwent successful resection of the fistula and was fully relieved of his symptom.

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  1. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Apollo Adlux Hospital, Kochi, India

    Jayakrishnan Soman Pillai, Nainar Madhu Sankar & Priya Baby

  2. Apollo Adlux Hospital, Karukutty, Angamaly, Ernakulam, Kerala, 683 576, India

    Jayakrishnan Soman Pillai

  3. Department of Respiratory Medicine, Apollo Adlux Hospital, Kochi, India

    Jovin John Mathew

  4. Department of Cardiac Anaesthesiology, Apollo Adlux Hospital, Kochi, India

    Suchith Cheruvally

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Soman Pillai, J., Sankar, N., Mathew, J. et al. Four-decade-old benign tracheomediastinal fistula. Indian J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 38, 530–532 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12055-022-01370-x

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