AORTOESOPHAGEAL FISTULAS DUE TO GUNSHOT WOUNDS - REPORT OF 2 CASES WITH ONE SURVIVOR

Authors
KENNEDY KR CORNWELL EE CAMEL J DEMETRIADES D FLEMING AW
Citation
Kr. Kennedy et al., AORTOESOPHAGEAL FISTULAS DUE TO GUNSHOT WOUNDS - REPORT OF 2 CASES WITH ONE SURVIVOR, The journal of trauma, injury, infection, and critical care, 38(6), 1995, pp. 971-974
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Emergency Medicine & Critical Care
Journal title
The journal of trauma, injury, infection, and critical care → ACNP
Volume
38
Issue
6
Year of publication
1995
Pages
971 - 974
Database
ISI
SICI code
Abstract
We report the cases of two patients who developed aortoesophageal fist ulae after sustaining gunshot wounds to the chest. One suddenly exsang uinated 5 hours postinjury while in the angiography suite. The other m anifested 4 weeks postinjury while in a rehabilitation hospital for as sociated spinal cord injury. The diagnosis and management were complic ated, but the patient lived. He is the only survivor of aortoesophagea l fistula due to gunshot wound that we could find in the literature.