Traumatic esophageal rupture: unusual cause of acute mediastinal widening.

Abstract:

:We have presented the case of a 32-year-old man who sustained blunt trauma to the chest in a motor vehicle accident. Plain roentgenograms showed a widened mediastinum and pneumomediastinum, and an esophagogram with water-soluble contrast material showed an esophageal laceration at the T-4 level.

journal_name

South Med J

journal_title

Southern medical journal

authors

Carter MP,Long RF,Pellegrini RA,Wynn RA

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1991-06-01 00:00:00

pages

767-9

issue

6

eissn

0038-4348

issn

1541-8243

journal_volume

84

pub_type

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