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Intrathoracic esophageal rupture distal to the carina after blunt chest trauma: Case-report

INTRODUCTION: Esophageal rupture caused by blunt chest trauma is a very rare entity, with an incidence of 0.001%. Eighty two percent of the esophageal perforation secondary to blunt chest trauma occur above the level of the carina, with the lowest reported incidence in the intrathoracic region dista...

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Autores principales: Cedeño, Alex, Echeverría, Karla, Vázquez, Jan, Delgado, Aura, Rodríguez-Ortiz, Pablo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4643336/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26492358
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijscr.2015.08.021