Fistulae oesophageo-oesophageales congenitae

Heritage of Stanislaw Ciechanowski (1869‐1945)—Discoverer of pathogenesis of prostatic hyperplasia‐passionis insignia signis fulgent mirificis

“…Ciechanowski reported disorders of developmental pathology. Namely he published on congenital oesophageal fistulas, inborn ileus of small intestines . Ciechanowski was deeply concerned with practical anatomy and presented the varied topographical relations of the appendix to caecum in statistical approach at the Congress of Polish Surgeons in Warsaw in 1910 .…”

Esophagus: anatomy and developmental and structural anomalies

“…Tubular duplications may communicate at both ends with the esophageal lumen or be closed at one end, but more than 80% do not communicate with the lumen [76][77][78]217]. Spontaneous submucosal dissection of the esophagus has been reported and can radiographically present with a double-barrel esophagus that mimics a tubular duplication [79].…”