Descending necrotizing mediastinitis causing pleuroesophageal fistula: Successful treatment by combined transcervical and pleural drainage

Chest

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1404-1407

  Kruyt, Philip M ^a   Boonstra, Anco ^a   Fockens, Paul ^a   Reeders, Jacques W A J ^a   Van Lanschot, J John B ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

descending necrotizing mediastinitis; pleuroesophageal fistula; transcervical drainage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS FISTULA; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPHARYNGEAL ABSCESS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029959994     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.109.5.1404     Document Type: Article

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