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- Patrizio Petrone, Kawthar Kassimi, Marta Jiménez-Gómez, Alejandro Betancourt, Alexander Axelrad, and Corrado P Marini.
- Division of Trauma Surgery, Surgical Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery, NYU Winthrop Hospital, Mineola, New York, United States; PhD Candidate, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. Electronic address: patrizio.petrone@gmail.com.
- Injury. 2017 Aug 1; 48 (8): 1735-1742.
AbstractTraumatic esophageal injuries occur less than 10% of the time in the setting of blunt or penetrating trauma. The purpose of this literature review is to provide an update on the most recent changes involving the diagnosis and treatment of esophageal injuries. A literature search was conducted using PubMed, to identify articles written in English language with the terms "non- iatrogenic", "esophageal", "trauma", "diagnosis", "management", and "prognosis". Case reports and articles involving non-traumatic esophageal perforations were excluded. Fifty pertinent articles in English language from 1947 to 2015 were selected for review. Based on the review of all articles, we designed a diagnostic and therapeutic algorithm to facilitate the diagnosis and management of the traumatic esophageal injury.Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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