• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• v.26 no.7
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• pp.583-585
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• 1993

An esophagocutaneous fistula following anterior cervical fusion is rare.We had experienced two cases of postoperative cervical esophagocutaneous fistula, which one case was treated with nonoperative management and the other with operative management.The operation was tried when the conservative treatment seemed to be unsuccessful.They were eventually recovered with conservative treatment, whitch consisted of wound drainage and intravenous administration of antibiotics and operative management with the transposition of sternocleidomastoid muscle flap respectively.