Conservative management for an esophageal perforation in a patient presented with delayed diagnosis: A case report

Cases Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Tsalis, Konstantinos ^a   Blouhos, Konstantinos ^a   Kapetanos, Dimitrios ^b   Kontakiotis, Theodore ^a   Lazaridis, Charalampos ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b G PAPANICOLAOU HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFUROXIME; METRONIDAZOLE; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; DIATRIZOATE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DRUG MEGADOSE; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS FOREIGN BODY; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; HYDROTHORAX; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOMEDIASTINUM; SWALLOWING; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; STENT; SYMPTOM;

EID: 77953430453     PISSN: 17571626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1757-1626-2-164     Document Type: Article

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