Successful late management of spontaneous esophageal rupture using T-tube mediastinoabdominal drainage

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 192-196

  Ojima, Hitoshi ^a   Kuwano, Hiroyuki ^a   Sasaki, Shigeru ^a   Fujisawa, Tomomi ^a   Ishibashi, Yasunori ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Boerhaave' syndrome; Esophageal perforation; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL DRAINAGE; ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BOERHAAVE SYNDROME; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPNEA; ESOPHAGUS RUPTURE; FEMALE; FISTULA; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOMEDIASTINUM; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; SHOULDER PAIN; SKIN INCISION; STOMACH DISTENSION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX; THORAX PAIN; VOMITING;

ABDOMEN; CHEST TUBES; DRAINAGE; ESOPHAGEAL DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; REMISSION INDUCTION; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034802611     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9610(01)00670-5     Document Type: Article

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