| Literature DB >> 17643655 |
Haridimos Markogiannakis1, Dimitrios Theodorou, Dimitrios Tzertzemelis, Dimitrios Dardamanis, Konstantinos G Toutouzas, Panagiotis Misthos, Stilianos Katsaragakis.
Abstract
Intrathoracic colon herniation after esophagectomy is rare. Furthermore, fecopneumothorax is an extremely infrequent clinical entity. We believe this is the first report in the literature of a patient with fecopneumothorax due to diverticular perforation of intrathoracically herniated transverse colon 2 months after transthoracic esophagectomy and cervical esophagogastric anastomosis. The relative literature addressing cause, clinical presentation, diagnosis, management, and prevention of this life-threatening complication of esophagectomy is reviewed.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID： 17643655 DOI： 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.03.020
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Ann Thorac Surg ISSN： 0003-4975 Impact factor: 4.330