Spontaneous mediastinitis with multiple esophageal abscess in the esophagus

Acute mediastinitis (AM) is a rare and deadly disease without appropriate treatment. It is usually due to invasive medical procedures, being uncommon the spontaneous onset. We report a case of 49-year-old patient whose starting symptoms were dyspnea and oppressive epigastric pain.

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Autores principales: Almorza, Tomás, Herrera-Juárez, Mercedes, Lalueza, Antonio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6139812/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30225188
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2018.09.003
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spelling pubmed-61398122018-09-17 Spontaneous mediastinitis with multiple esophageal abscess in the esophagus Almorza, Tomás Herrera-Juárez, Mercedes Lalueza, Antonio Respir Med Case Rep Case Report Acute mediastinitis (AM) is a rare and deadly disease without appropriate treatment. It is usually due to invasive medical procedures, being uncommon the spontaneous onset. We report a case of 49-year-old patient whose starting symptoms were dyspnea and oppressive epigastric pain. Elsevier 2018-09-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6139812/ /pubmed/30225188 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2018.09.003 Text en © 2018 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Spontaneous mediastinitis with multiple esophageal abscess in the esophagus
title Spontaneous mediastinitis with multiple esophageal abscess in the esophagus
title_full Spontaneous mediastinitis with multiple esophageal abscess in the esophagus
title_fullStr Spontaneous mediastinitis with multiple esophageal abscess in the esophagus
title_full_unstemmed Spontaneous mediastinitis with multiple esophageal abscess in the esophagus
title_short Spontaneous mediastinitis with multiple esophageal abscess in the esophagus
title_sort spontaneous mediastinitis with multiple esophageal abscess in the esophagus
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6139812/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30225188
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2018.09.003
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