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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg · Apr 2019
Case ReportsTraumatic oesophageal perforation: a successful management based on the Pittsburgh Perforation Severity Score.
- Luca Giulini, Attila Dubecz, Michael Schweigert, and Hubert J Stein.
- Department of Surgery, Paracelsus Medical University, Nuremberg, Germany.
- Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2019 Apr 1; 55 (4): 792-794.
AbstractOesophageal perforation is a severe life-threatening clinical condition with high mortality and morbidity needing rapid interdisciplinary approach to be effectively managed. Recently, on the basis of multicentric retrospective data, we proposed a decision tree for the treatment of oesophageal perforations based on the Pittsburgh Perforation Severity Score (PSS). We now report the first case of a traumatic oesophageal perforation, which was successfully treated according to the application of the PSS decision tree.© The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. All rights reserved.
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