APATIENT WITH SEVERE SPONTANEOUS ESOPHAGNEANL RUPTURE TREATNED BY CONSERVATIVE THERAPY

Masao NISHIMOTO; Tetsuo AJIKI; Masaharu MATSUMORI; Tetsuhiro KOREEDA; Shoichi AJIKI

doi:10.11280/gee1973b.45.138

GASTROENTEROLOGICAL ENDOSCOPY

Online ISSN : 1884-5738
Print ISSN : 0387-1207
ISSN-L : 0387-1207

APATIENT WITH SEVERE SPONTANEOUS ESOPHAGNEANL RUPTURE TREATNED BY CONSERVATIVE THERAPY

Masao NISHIMOTO, Tetsuo AJIKI, Masaharu MATSUMORI, Tetsuhiro KOREEDA, Shoichi AJIKI

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2003 Volume 45 Issue 2 Pages 138-143

DOI https://doi.org/10.11280/gee1973b.45.138

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Abstract

A 57-year-ald male devoloped hernatemesis due to vorniting following alcohol intake.Right pyopneumothorax was observed. Though this finding was not one of the conventionalindications for conservative therapy, he recovered after the thorough drainage using threeintrathoracic catheters and the nutritional management by intravenous hyperalimentation.Even in patients wzth severe spontaneous esophageal rupture, if goad drainage can be achieved, Conservative treatment may be possible.

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