Two Cases of Tracheoesophageal Fistula

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Acquired nonmalignant tracheoesophageal fistulas were formerly considered rare lesions, but they have been increasingly reported in the recent past. The pathognomonic complaints of this life-threatening lesion are strangulating sensations and frequent paroxysmal coughings occurring several seconds after the ingestion of liquids or solids. Until the past decade, this lesion was most often caused by infection, trauma, or esophageal diverticula. Complications caused by cuffed tracheal tubes are now becoming more widely noticed. Especially, tracheoesophageal fistula is one of the more unusual of these complications. Author reports two patients with tracheoesophageal fistula caused by cuffed tracheal tube.