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Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg · Jan 2010
Case ReportsBarotraumatic oesophageal perforation with bilateral tension pneumothorax.
- Li-Chien Chien, Hong-Tai Chang, and Yi-Pin Chou.
- Division of Trauma and Surgical Emergency, Department of Surgery, National Yang-Ming University Hospital, I-Lan city, 26042, Taiwan, ROC. maxchien@mail2000.com.tw
- Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2010 Jan 1; 10 (1): 152-3.
AbstractBarotraumatic oesophageal perforation with bilateral tension pneumothorax is extremely rare and this is a first case reported in the literature. The possibility of the oesophageal perforation due to high-pressure gas flow should be kept in mind and the standard of diagnosis is oesophagography.
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