Evolving management strategies in esophageal perforation: Surgeons using nonoperative techniques to improve outcomes

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 213, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 164-171

  Kuppusamy, Madhan Kumar ^a   Hubka, Michal ^a   Felisky, Chance D ^a   Carrott, Philip ^a   Kline, Elizabeth M ^a   Koehler, Richard P ^a   Low, Donald E ^a  

^a VIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPLICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIGESTIVE TRACT ENDOSCOPY; DOBHOFF; ENDOSCOPIC MEDIASTINAL DRAINAGE; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS SURGERY; FEEDING JEJUNOSTOMY; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY ASPIRATION; GASTROSTOMY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERSISTENT LEAK; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIC DRAINAGE; SEPSIS; STENT; STENT MIGRATION; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; T TUBE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGEAL PERFORATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959527716     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: 18791190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2011.01.059     Document Type: Article

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