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Incidental recognition of an aspirated tablet in an oesophagectomized patient
1 Düsseldorf, Germany
2 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* E-mail: brauns@uni-duesseldorf.de
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Editor—We report an incidental recognition of silent aspiration of a tablet given before operation during routine fibreoptic inspection of the double-lumen tube position in a patient with a previous oesophagectomy.
A 64-yr-old woman presented with a carcinoma of the middle oesophagus. An abdomino-thoracic oesophagectomy was combined with the gastric pull-up