Covered stents for the treatment of life-threatening cervical esophageal anastomotic leaks

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 843-844

  Chak, Amitabh ^a   Singh, Rohit ^a   Linden, Philip A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; SILASTIC;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL ESOPHAGUS ANASTOMOSIS; COLON RESECTION; CRICOPHARYNGEUS MUSCLE; CROHN DISEASE; DECORTICATION; DRAIN; DYSPHAGIA; EFFUSION; EMPYEMA; ESOPHAGEAL STENT; ESOPHAGOSCOPE; ESOPHAGUS ANASTOMOSIS; ESOPHAGUS DIVERTICULOSIS; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEVER; GASTROESOPHAGEAL JUNCTION ADENOCARCINOMA; GASTROINTESTINAL CARCINOMA; HUMAN; ILEOSTOMY; INCISION; JEJUNOSTOMY TUBE; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; OPERATING ROOM; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA; SEPSIS; SKIN REDNESS; STENT; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SWALLOWING; SWELLING; THORACOSCOPY; TUBE FEEDING; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BARIUM SULFATE; DEGLUTITION; DRAINAGE; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STENTS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79951771967     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2010.07.019     Document Type: Article

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