Esophagopericardial fistula as a rare complication after total gastrectomy for cancer

BACKGROUND: Esophagopericardial fistula is a rare but life-threatening complication of benign, malignant or traumatic esophageal disease. It is most commonly associated with benign etiology and carries a high mortality rate which increases with delay in diagnosis. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a cas...

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Autores principales: Dafnios, Nikolaos, Anastasopoulos, Georgios, Marinis, Athanasios, Polydorou, Andreas, Gkiokas, Georgios, Fragulidis, Georgios, Athanasopoulos, Panayiotis, Theodosopoulos, Theodosios
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2712474/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19580643
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-7-58

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2712474/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19580643
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-7-58

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