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Article History

Received: 24 January 2018

Accepted: 28 August 2018

First Online: 18 October 2018

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: Authors are reporting for the first time, a successful emergency combined angiographic and endoscopic approach to resolving a life-threatening aortoesophageal fistula after ingestion of a lithium-cell coin-battery. The procedure was performed as rescue therapy in an emergency medical condition.

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