Experimental investigation of battery-induced esophageal burn injury in rabbits

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2039-2044

  Yoshikawa, Takuma ^a   Asai, Satoshi ^a   Takekawa, Yoshinori ^a   Kida, Akinori ^a   Ishikawa, Koichi ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acid burn; Alkaline burn; Battery ingestion; Direction of battery; Esophageal injury; Esophageal rinsing; Histologic damage; Lethal complications; Macroscopic damage; Tracheal injury

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BURN; CHEMICAL REACTION; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ESOPHAGUS FOREIGN BODY; ESOPHAGUS INJURY; ESOPHAGUS MUCOSA; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SWALLOWING;

ANIMALS; BURNS, ELECTRIC; ESOPHAGUS; MALE; RABBITS; TRACHEA;

EID: 0031454703     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199712000-00022     Document Type: Article

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