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Objective Discuss clinical type and treatment of postoperative digestive tract fistula and associate complications of esophageal or cardiac cancer.Methods Analized clinical manifestations and treatment retrospectively of 53 cases of digestive tract fistula after operation of esophageal or cardiac cancer from January,2010 to December,2012.Results All the 10 undergoing surgery are cured by reoperation.2 died of mediastinal infection and sepsis.4 died of respiratory failier,malnutrition,left and right bronchal fistula,respectively.Conclusion There are 4 types of fistula:Ⅰ type of sepsis,Ⅱ type of respiratory failure,Ⅲ type of thoracic infection,Ⅳ type of neck inection.Reoperation within 24 hours is the key of suscessful repairment of intrathoracic anastmotic leakage.Bronchal fistula or respiratory failure caused by multiple thoracic encapsulated effusion is also the indication of surgery.Complete lung reexpansion and complete drainage is the key.Mini-invasive VATS is the method of exact drainage.