Preoperative chemoradiation therapy decreases the number of lymph nodes resected during esophagectomy.

Background: This study aimed to analyze the effect of preoperative chemoradiation on the adequacy of lymph node dissection.

Methods: Patients with esophageal cancer treated with esophagectomy by the same surgeon between 2004 and 2011 were reviewed. Specimens were examined by the same pathologist.

Two unusual cases of adult onset congenital bronchoesophageal fistulas treated with fistula division.

Adult onset congenital bronchoesophageal fistula is a very rare entity. We report 2 cases of adult onset type II congenital bronchoesophageal fistula between the distal thoracic esophagus and the lower lobe superior segmental bronchi surgically treated through a right and left thoracotomy, respectively. In both cases the fistula was transected and sutured with no parenchyma resection.