PANCREATICOPLEURAL FISTULA AND ESOPHAGEAL CANCER - ONE-STAGE SURGICAL-TREATMENT OF THE 2 LESIONS

To our knowledge, the association of a pancreatico-pleural fistula and an esophageal carcinoma has never been previously reported. We report the case of a 48 year old man, who presented with a squamous-cell car cinoma of the esophagus associated with a right pancreatico-pleural fi stula. This association raises the problem of the surgical strategy. I n our case, we chose to treat the two lesions during the same operatio n. We performed left pancreatectomy with splenectomy and an Ivor-Lewis procedure, with an uneventful postoperative course.