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Conservative management for an esophageal perforation in a patient presented with delayed diagnosis: a case report review of the literature

Esophageal perforation is a serious condition with a high mortality rate. Successful therapy depends on the size of the rupture; the time elapsed between rupture and diagnosis, and the underlying health of the patient. Common causes of esophageal perforation include medical instrumentation, foreign-...

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Autores principales: Tsalis, Konstantinos, Blouhos, Konstantinos, Kapetanos, Dimitrios, Kontakiotis, Theodore, Lazaridis, Charalampos
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769312/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19918542
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6784
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author Tsalis, Konstantinos
Blouhos, Konstantinos
Kapetanos, Dimitrios
Kontakiotis, Theodore
Lazaridis, Charalampos
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Blouhos, Konstantinos
Kapetanos, Dimitrios
Kontakiotis, Theodore
Lazaridis, Charalampos
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description Esophageal perforation is a serious condition with a high mortality rate. Successful therapy depends on the size of the rupture; the time elapsed between rupture and diagnosis, and the underlying health of the patient. Common causes of esophageal perforation include medical instrumentation, foreign-body ingestion, and trauma. A case of esophageal perforation due to fish bone ingestion in a 67-year-old male is described here, with a review of the pertinent literature. The patient presented with chest pain, fever and right-sided pleural effusion. Initial evaluation was nondiagnostic. The water-soluble contrast swallow test showed no evidence of leakage. Computed tomography scan demonstrated a pneumomediastinum, and right-sided hydropneumothorax. The patient was successfully treated using conservative measures.
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spelling pubmed-27693122009-11-16 Conservative management for an esophageal perforation in a patient presented with delayed diagnosis: a case report review of the literature Tsalis, Konstantinos Blouhos, Konstantinos Kapetanos, Dimitrios Kontakiotis, Theodore Lazaridis, Charalampos Cases J Case report Esophageal perforation is a serious condition with a high mortality rate. Successful therapy depends on the size of the rupture; the time elapsed between rupture and diagnosis, and the underlying health of the patient. Common causes of esophageal perforation include medical instrumentation, foreign-body ingestion, and trauma. A case of esophageal perforation due to fish bone ingestion in a 67-year-old male is described here, with a review of the pertinent literature. The patient presented with chest pain, fever and right-sided pleural effusion. Initial evaluation was nondiagnostic. The water-soluble contrast swallow test showed no evidence of leakage. Computed tomography scan demonstrated a pneumomediastinum, and right-sided hydropneumothorax. The patient was successfully treated using conservative measures. Cases Network Ltd 2009-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC2769312/ /pubmed/19918542 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6784 Text en © 2009 Tsalis et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Lazaridis, Charalampos
Conservative management for an esophageal perforation in a patient presented with delayed diagnosis: a case report review of the literature
title Conservative management for an esophageal perforation in a patient presented with delayed diagnosis: a case report review of the literature
title_full Conservative management for an esophageal perforation in a patient presented with delayed diagnosis: a case report review of the literature
title_fullStr Conservative management for an esophageal perforation in a patient presented with delayed diagnosis: a case report review of the literature
title_full_unstemmed Conservative management for an esophageal perforation in a patient presented with delayed diagnosis: a case report review of the literature
title_short Conservative management for an esophageal perforation in a patient presented with delayed diagnosis: a case report review of the literature
title_sort conservative management for an esophageal perforation in a patient presented with delayed diagnosis: a case report review of the literature
topic Case report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769312/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19918542
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6784
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