Perforated Diverticulum: Rare Complication of Interposed Substernal Colon

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 717-719

  Cheng, Yu Jen ^a   Li, Hsien Pin ^a   Kao, Eing Long ^a  

^a KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; BARIUM;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON INTERPOSITION; COLON OBSTRUCTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTRAST RADIOGRAPHY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM INJURY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DYSPHAGIA; ENTERIC FEEDING; ESOPHAGUS RECONSTRUCTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HYDROTHORAX; INTUBATION; JEJUNOSTOMY; LAPAROTOMY; LUNG ABSCESS; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG LOBE; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MALE; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALVAGE THERAPY; SEPSIS; SUBSTERNAL COLON INTERPOSITION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TISSUE FLAP; TISSUE NECROSIS; TISSUE REPAIR; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT REFUSAL; TUBE FEEDING; VOMITING;

ADULT; COLON; DIVERTICULUM, COLON; ESOPHAGUS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; MALE; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 33746088822     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.10.005     Document Type: Article

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