Esophageal perforation following bite of inner tube of automobile tyre: An unusual cause of barotrauma

An 8-year-old child presented with severe chest pain and respiratory distress after he accidentally bit an automobile tyre tube which burst into his mouth. The chest radiograph revealed left-sided pneumothorax. Both esophagogram and computed tomogram (CT) scan revealed a perforation of the distal th...

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Autores principales: Kadian, Y. S., Agarwal, S., Rattan, K. N., Nityasha
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2998669/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21180505
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.69142
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description An 8-year-old child presented with severe chest pain and respiratory distress after he accidentally bit an automobile tyre tube which burst into his mouth. The chest radiograph revealed left-sided pneumothorax. Both esophagogram and computed tomogram (CT) scan revealed a perforation of the distal third of esophagus with extravasation of contrast on left side. The patient was treated conservatively with gastrostomy feeds and antibiotics for 5 weeks with a good response.
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spelling pubmed-29986692010-12-21 Esophageal perforation following bite of inner tube of automobile tyre: An unusual cause of barotrauma Kadian, Y. S. Agarwal, S. Rattan, K. N. Nityasha, J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg Case Report An 8-year-old child presented with severe chest pain and respiratory distress after he accidentally bit an automobile tyre tube which burst into his mouth. The chest radiograph revealed left-sided pneumothorax. Both esophagogram and computed tomogram (CT) scan revealed a perforation of the distal third of esophagus with extravasation of contrast on left side. The patient was treated conservatively with gastrostomy feeds and antibiotics for 5 weeks with a good response. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2998669/ /pubmed/21180505 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.69142 Text en © Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Esophageal perforation following bite of inner tube of automobile tyre: An unusual cause of barotrauma
title Esophageal perforation following bite of inner tube of automobile tyre: An unusual cause of barotrauma
title_full Esophageal perforation following bite of inner tube of automobile tyre: An unusual cause of barotrauma
title_fullStr Esophageal perforation following bite of inner tube of automobile tyre: An unusual cause of barotrauma
title_full_unstemmed Esophageal perforation following bite of inner tube of automobile tyre: An unusual cause of barotrauma
title_short Esophageal perforation following bite of inner tube of automobile tyre: An unusual cause of barotrauma
title_sort esophageal perforation following bite of inner tube of automobile tyre: an unusual cause of barotrauma
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2998669/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.69142
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