Endoscopic T-tube placement in the management of lye-induced esophageal perforation: Case report of a safe treatment strategy

Esophageal perforation is associated with a significant risk of morbidity and mortality. We report herein a case of lye-induced esophageal perforation managed successfully by employing endoscopic T-tube placement with a successful outcome.

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Autores principales: McMahon, Mary Aisling, O'Kelly, Fardod, Lim, Kheng Tian, Ravi, Narayanasamy, Reynolds, John Vincent
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2738658/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19682361
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1754-9493-3-19
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author McMahon, Mary Aisling
O'Kelly, Fardod
Lim, Kheng Tian
Ravi, Narayanasamy
Reynolds, John Vincent
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spelling pubmed-27386582009-09-05 Endoscopic T-tube placement in the management of lye-induced esophageal perforation: Case report of a safe treatment strategy McMahon, Mary Aisling O'Kelly, Fardod Lim, Kheng Tian Ravi, Narayanasamy Reynolds, John Vincent Patient Saf Surg Case Report Esophageal perforation is associated with a significant risk of morbidity and mortality. We report herein a case of lye-induced esophageal perforation managed successfully by employing endoscopic T-tube placement with a successful outcome. BioMed Central 2009-08-14 /pmc/articles/PMC2738658/ /pubmed/19682361 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1754-9493-3-19 Text en Copyright © 2009 McMahon et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
McMahon, Mary Aisling
O'Kelly, Fardod
Lim, Kheng Tian
Ravi, Narayanasamy
Reynolds, John Vincent
Endoscopic T-tube placement in the management of lye-induced esophageal perforation: Case report of a safe treatment strategy
title Endoscopic T-tube placement in the management of lye-induced esophageal perforation: Case report of a safe treatment strategy
title_full Endoscopic T-tube placement in the management of lye-induced esophageal perforation: Case report of a safe treatment strategy
title_fullStr Endoscopic T-tube placement in the management of lye-induced esophageal perforation: Case report of a safe treatment strategy
title_full_unstemmed Endoscopic T-tube placement in the management of lye-induced esophageal perforation: Case report of a safe treatment strategy
title_short Endoscopic T-tube placement in the management of lye-induced esophageal perforation: Case report of a safe treatment strategy
title_sort endoscopic t-tube placement in the management of lye-induced esophageal perforation: case report of a safe treatment strategy
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2738658/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19682361
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1754-9493-3-19
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