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Trauma of the Esophagus

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International Practice in Cardiothoracic Surgery

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Esophageal trauma may be caused by penetrating or blunt external forces, instrumentation or foreign bodies, spontaneous or post-emetic rupture and chemical burns.

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  1. Harold C. Urschel Jr.
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  1. Beijing Heart, Lung and Blood Vessel Medical Center, Beijing, China

    Yingkai Wu MB. ChB. (Professor of Thoracic Surgery) (Professor of Thoracic Surgery)

  2. University of California at San Diego, California, USA

    Richard M. Peters M.D. (Professor of Surgery & Biomedical Engineering) (Professor of Surgery & Biomedical Engineering)

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© 1986 Science Press, Beijing and Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht

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Urschel, H.C. (1986). Trauma of the Esophagus. In: Wu, Y., Peters, R.M. (eds) International Practice in Cardiothoracic Surgery. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4259-2_42

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