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[Boerhaave syndrome--atraumatic total esophageal rupture]
G Schwesinger1, L Riethdorf, K Badendick
1Institut für Pathologische Anatomie, Ernst-Mortiz-Arndt-Universität.
Zeitschrift Fur Die Gesamte Innere Medizin Und Ihre Grenzgebiete
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
Report on a 69-year-old male with spontaneous atraumatic rupture of the oesophagus (Boerhaave's syndrome) in clinically mentioned chronic abuse of alcohol and massive vomiting which preceded the event. Discussion of causes, differential diagnosis, therapy as well as of forensic aspects of this syndrome.