Table 2.

Patients’ background and procedure outcome

Patient number	Age (years)	Sex	Number of procedures	Location of defect	Etiology	Result
1	13.3	Female	1	Lower third	Caustic ingestion	Success
2	13.2	Female	1	Upper third	TEF	Success
3	13.2	Female	1	Lower third	GERD	Success
4	6.2	Male	1	Upper third, Middle third, Lower third	Dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa	Improvement
5	3.6	Male	2	Middle third	TEF	Success
6	1.4	Male	10	Middle third	TEF	Failure
7	3.7	Male	2	Middle third	Caustic ingestion	Improvement
8	2.4	Male	16	Upper third	Caustic ingestion	Success
9	1.5	Male	2	Middle third	Caustic ingestion	Success
10	2.2	Female	1	Middle third	TEF	Improvement
11	2.6	Male	3	Upper third	TEF	Success
12	1.5	Male	2	Upper third	Dyskeratosis congenita	Success
13	0.9	Male	3	Middle third	TEF	Success
14	1.4	Female	4	Upper third	TEF	Success
15	22.9	Female	3	Upper third	TEF	Success
16	16.3	Male	1	Middle third	GVHD	Success
17	12.1	Female	17*	Upper third, Lower third	Caustic ingestion	Failure
18	10.6	Female	1	Middle third	TEF	Improvement
19	3.2	Male	12	Middle third	TEF	Success
20	2.5	Male	2	Middle third	Idiopathic	Success
21	6.3	Female	8	Middle third	TEF	Success
22	3.3	Male	8	Middle third, Lower third	Caustic ingestion	Improvement

GERD gastro-esophageal reflux disease, GVHD graft versus host disease, TEF tracheo-esophageal fistula. *Paramedical factors influenced the number of procedures