Postoperative vomiting causing esophageal rupture after antiemetic use: A case report

Journal of Reproductive Medicine for the Obstetrician and Gynecologist

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 124-126

  Komenaka, Ian K ^a   Gandhi, Sonal G ^a   DeGraft Johnson, John B ^a   Nguyen, Eric T ^a   Gardezi, Syed Q ^a  

^a NEW YORK METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Antiemetics; Boerhaave's syndrome; Esophageal rupture; Esophagus; Ileus; Postoperative nausea and vomiting

Indexed keywords

ANTIEMETIC AGENT; PROKINETIC AGENT; TRIMETHOBENZAMIDE;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BOERHAAVE SYNDROME; CASE REPORT; DEATH; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; ESOPHAGUS RUPTURE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ILEUS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; POSTOPERATIVE VOMITING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; SEPSIS;

AGED; ANTIEMETICS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGUS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RUPTURE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037327520     PISSN: 00247758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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