• Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg · Jan 2010

    Case Reports

    Barotraumatic 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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