• Title of article

    Fecopneumothorax: A Rare Complication of Esophagectomy

  • Author/Authors

    Haridimos Markogiannakis، نويسنده , , Dimitrios Theodorou، نويسنده , , Dimitrios Tzertzemelis، نويسنده , , Dimitrios Dardamanis، نويسنده , , Konstantinos G. Toutouzas، نويسنده , , Panagiotis Misthos، نويسنده , , Stilianos Katsaragakis، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2007
  • Pages
    2
  • From page
    651
  • To page
    652
  • 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.
  • Journal title
    The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
  • Serial Year
    2007
  • Journal title
    The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
  • Record number

    610909