Management of Esophageal Injuries Secondary to Trauma

Authors

Patrizio Petrone, New York Medical CollegeFollow
K Kassimi
M Jimenez-Gomez
Alejandro Betancourt, New York Medical CollegeFollow
A Axelrad
Corrado Marini, New York Medical CollegeFollow

Journal Title

Injury

First Page

1735

Last Page

1742

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

8-1-2017

Department

Surgery

Abstract

Traumatic esophageal injuries occur less than 10% of the time in the setting of blunt or penetrating trauma. The purpose of this literature review is to provide an update on the most recent changes involving the diagnosis and treatment of esophageal injuries. A literature search was conducted using PubMed, to identify articles written in English language with the terms "non- iatrogenic", "esophageal", "trauma", "diagnosis", "management", and "prognosis". Case reports and articles involving non-traumatic esophageal perforations were excluded. Fifty pertinent articles in English language from 1947 to 2015 were selected for review. Based on the review of all articles, we designed a diagnostic and therapeutic algorithm to facilitate the diagnosis and management of the traumatic esophageal injury.

Recommended Citation

Petrone, P., Kassimi, K., Jimenez-Gomez, M., Betancourt, A., Axelrad, A., & Marini, C. (2017). Management of Esophageal Injuries Secondary to Trauma. Injury, 48 (8), 1735-1742. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.injury.2017.06.012