%0 Journal Article
%T Conservative treatment in isolated penetrating cervical esophageal injury: case report
%A Epstein
%A Marina Gabrielle
%A Costa
%A Sara Venoso
%A Carvalho
%A Filipe Gusm£żo
%A Pasquetti
%A Aline Fioravanti
%A Arsie Neto
%A Herico
%A Pedroso
%A Pamella Tung
%A Sim£żes
%A Cesar Augusto
%A Pinus
%A Jaques
%A Ribeiro Junior
%A Marcelo Augusto Fontenelle
%J Einstein (S£żo Paulo)
%D 2012
%I Instituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa Albert Einstein
%R 10.1590/S1679-45082012000400019
%X non-iatrogenic traumatic cervical esophageal perforations are usually hard to manage in the clinical setting, and often require a careful and individualized approach. the low incidence of this particular problem leads to a restricted clinical experience among most centers and justify the lack of a standardized surgical approach. conservative treatment of esophageal perforation remains a controversial topic, although early and sporadic reports have registered the efficacy of non-operative care, especially following perforation in patients that do not sustain any other kind of injuries, and who are hemodynamically stable and non-septic. we report a case of a patient sustaining a single cervical gunshot wound compromising the cervical esophagus and who was treated exclusively with cervical drainage, enteral support and antibiotics.
%K esophageal perforation
%K upper gastrointestinal tract
%K esophagus [injuries]
%K esophagus [radiography]
%K case reports.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1679-45082012000400019&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en