Successful treatment for a delay-diagnosed esophageal perforation with deep neck infection, mediastinitis, empyema, and sepsis [4]

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 100, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 727-728

  Wang, Liang Tsai ^a   Lee, Shih Chun ^a   Tzao, Ching ^a   Chang, Hung ^a   Cheng, Yeung Leung ^a  

^a TRI SERVICE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; SULTAMICILLIN;

AGED; CASE REPORT; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPHAGIA; EMPYEMA; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; GASTROSTOMY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LETTER; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; ODYNOPHAGIA; SEPSIS; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; EMPYEMA; ESOPHAGEAL PERFORATION; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; INFECTION; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NECK; NECROSIS; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34447328693     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e318063ed9f     Document Type: Letter

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