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Scintigraphic Demonstration of Tracheo-Esophageal Fistula

SUNY Downstate Medical Center-Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, New York

Correspondence: For reprints contact: E. K. Dunn, MD, Dept. of Radiology Div. of Nucl. Med., SUNY Downstate Medical Center, 450 Clarkson Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11203.

ABSTRACT

A tracheo-esophageal fistula, developed follwing radiotherapy for an esophageal carcinoma, was vividly demonstrated by radionuclide imaging. The abnormality was later confirmed by a barium esophagram and endoscopic examinations. The scintigraphic procedure, making use of a Tc-99m sulfur colloid swallow, appears to be a simple alternative method that may be clinically useful for the diagnosis of such a condition.