A case report of esophageal perforation: Complication of nasogastric tube placement

American Journal of Case Reports

Volumn 15, Issue , 2014, Pages 168-171

  Isik, Arda ^a   Firat, Deniz ^a   Peker, Kemal ^a   Sayar, Ilyas ^a   Idiz, Oguz ^b   Soytürk, Mehmet ^a  

^a ERZINCAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Department of General Surgery Yunak State Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Emergency surgery; Nasogastric tube; Osephagus perforation

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DETERIORATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; ESOPHAGUS RUPTURE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; JEJUNOSTOMY; MALE; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; NAUSEA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOMEDIASTINUM; PNEUMONIA; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VOMITING;

EID: 84899659486     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19415923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12659/AJCR.890260     Document Type: Article

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