Aetiology, treatment and mortality after oesophageal perforation in Denmark

Danish Medical Bulletin

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Ryom, Philip ^a   Ravn, Jesper Bohsen ^a   Penninga, Luit ^a   Schmidt, Susanne ^a   Iversen, Maria Gerding ^b   Skov Olsen, Peter ^a   Kehlet, Henrik ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b Sundhedsstyrelsen   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; BOERHAAVE SYNDROME; CHILD; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DENMARK; DIET RESTRICTION; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS BURN; ESOPHAGUS INJURY; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; THORACOTOMY; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY; VOMITING; DIGESTIVE TRACT INTUBATION; DILATATION; INFANT; INSTRUMENTATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; RUPTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BALLOON DILATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DENMARK; DILATATION; ESOPHAGEAL PERFORATION; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955979255     PISSN: 16039629     EISSN: 16039629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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