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diagnosis of bronchial stent related malignant respiratory fistulas To the Editor: The stent related bronchoesophageal fistula recently published by TULLEKEN et al. [1] is a relative rare sequelae of this new management. This stent has been used to control postoperative stenosis of reconstructed left main bronchus rupture after blunt thoracic injury. Congratulations for the early recognition of the air-filled oesophagus as a sign of fistula in the diagnostic procedure. I add a short comment on the other, more frequent types of fistulas. The increased number of oesophagorespiratory fis-tulas, as a side-effect of radiochemotherapy for the palliation of inoperable bronchoesophageal malig