A rare complication of surgical management for esophageal tumor: a non neoplastic belated fistula between stomach and main right bronchus

The fistula between stomach and bronchus after surgery for cancer of the es ophagus is a rare occurrence. We describe a gastric non neoplastic ulcerati on that arose late after six years from an esophagectomy, with an end-side cervical esophagogastrostomy, for a spinocellular carcinoma. After the part ial failure of surgical technique, of the endoscopic treatment and for the bad general conditions of patient we decided to treat the fistula by transl uminal drainage. This technique involved a progressive resolution of the fi stula, becoming, nowadays, in our division, the preferred treatment for the se kinds of postoperative complications.