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An unusual case of oesophageal rupture treated by transhiatal oesophagectomy
K Park1, T J Crofts, S C Chung
1Department of Surgery, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, N.T.
Postgraduate Medical Journal
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
Spontaneous rupture of the oesophagus is an uncommon surgical emergency. A case is presented in which the extensive nature of the rupture precluded standard methods of treatment and was treated by transhiatal oesophagectomy.