Rupture of the apparently healthy esophagus
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Spontaneous rupture of the esophagus.
Perforation of the esophagus for any reason on at any level is always a grave lesion and one which, if untreated, is not compatible to life. The clinical symptoms of spontaneous rupture of the esophagus are not generally recognized. The majority of the cases thus far recorded in the literature, now more than 66, were not diagnosed before death and in many instances were not even suspected befor...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Laryngoscope
سال: 1901
ISSN: 0023-852X,1531-4995
DOI: 10.1288/00005537-190101000-00015