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Traumatic esophageal perforation

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  1. Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Lara K. Kulchycki

  2. Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, One Deaconess Road, West CC2, 02215, Boston, MA, USA

    Leon D. Sanchez & Adam Z. Barkin

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Kulchycki, L.K., Sanchez, L.D. & Barkin, A.Z. Traumatic esophageal perforation. Int Emergency Med 1, 72–75 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02934726

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