Long Standing Esophageal Perforation due to Foreign Body Impaction in Children: A Therapeutic Challenge in a Resource Limited Setting

Late presentation of foreign body impaction in the esophagus, complicated by perforation in children, has rarely been reported in the literature. Esophageal surgery is very difficult and challenging in Cameroon (a resource limited setting). We are reporting herein 2 cases of esophageal perforation i...

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Autores principales: Bernadette, Ngo Nonga, Ze, Jean Jacques, Pondy, Angele O., Kalla, Claude M., Kamgaing, Nelly, Handy Eone, Daniel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5591923/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28929005
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/9208474
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author Bernadette, Ngo Nonga
Ze, Jean Jacques
Pondy, Angele O.
Kalla, Claude M.
Kamgaing, Nelly
Handy Eone, Daniel
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Ze, Jean Jacques
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description Late presentation of foreign body impaction in the esophagus, complicated by perforation in children, has rarely been reported in the literature. Esophageal surgery is very difficult and challenging in Cameroon (a resource limited setting). We are reporting herein 2 cases of esophageal perforation in children seen very late (12 days and 40 days) after foreign body impaction, complicated with severe sepsis, who were successfully operated upon with very good results.
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spelling pubmed-55919232017-09-19 Long Standing Esophageal Perforation due to Foreign Body Impaction in Children: A Therapeutic Challenge in a Resource Limited Setting Bernadette, Ngo Nonga Ze, Jean Jacques Pondy, Angele O. Kalla, Claude M. Kamgaing, Nelly Handy Eone, Daniel Case Rep Pediatr Case Report Late presentation of foreign body impaction in the esophagus, complicated by perforation in children, has rarely been reported in the literature. Esophageal surgery is very difficult and challenging in Cameroon (a resource limited setting). We are reporting herein 2 cases of esophageal perforation in children seen very late (12 days and 40 days) after foreign body impaction, complicated with severe sepsis, who were successfully operated upon with very good results. Hindawi 2017 2017-08-08 /pmc/articles/PMC5591923/ /pubmed/28929005 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/9208474 Text en Copyright © 2017 Ngo Nonga Bernadette et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under 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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Long Standing Esophageal Perforation due to Foreign Body Impaction in Children: A Therapeutic Challenge in a Resource Limited Setting
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