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Repair of aortoesophageal fistula due to a penetrating atherosclerotic ulcer of the descending thoracic aorta and literature review

Penetrating atherosclerotic ulcer rupturing into the esophagus is rare and the resulting aortoesophageal fistula carries a high mortality. In view of the emergency nature of the entity and complexity of the procedure management of such a condition is not standardized. The immediate concern is to sav...

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Autores principales: Chandrashekar, Guruvegowda, Kumar, Vijay MN, Kumar, Ashok K
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1803784/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17300729
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-2-12