Drainage of esophageal leakage using endoscopic vacuum therapy: A prospective pilot study

Endoscopy

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 693-698

  Ahrens, M ^a   Schulte, T ^a   Egberts, J ^a   Schafmayer, C ^a   Hampe, J ^a   Fritscher Ravens, A ^a,b   Broering, D C ^a   Schniewind, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b HOMERTON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; INOTROPIC AGENT; POLYURETHAN;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; AORTOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; ENDOSCOPIC VACUUM THERAPY; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGEAL LEAKAGE; ESOPHAGUS ANASTOMOSIS; ESOPHAGUS DILATATION; ESOPHAGUS DISEASE; ESOPHAGUS STENOSIS; ESOPHAGUS SURGERY; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PILOT STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUCTION DRAINAGE; SURGICAL SPONGE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND DRAINAGE;

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; DRAINAGE; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; ESOPHAGECTOMY; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUCTION; SURGICAL SPONGES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VACUUM;

EID: 77956302211     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: 14388812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1255688     Document Type: Article

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