ESOPHAGEAL-PERFORATION CAUSED BY SENGSTAKEN-BLAKEMORE TUBE

Authors
WAND A DAVIS SD YANKELEVITZ DF ALTORKI NK HENSCHKE CI
Citation
A. Wand et al., ESOPHAGEAL-PERFORATION CAUSED BY SENGSTAKEN-BLAKEMORE TUBE, Complications in surgery, 14(1), 1995, pp. 79
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal",Surgery
Journal title
Complications in surgery → ACNP
ISSN journal
1053749X
Volume
14
Issue
1
Year of publication
1995
Database
ISI
SICI code
1053-749X(1995)14:1<79:ECBST>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
Sengstaken-Blakemore tubes are useful to temporarily stop bleeding fro m esophageal varices. Improper inflation of the gastric balloon within the esophagus or retraction of this inflated balloon from the stomach into the esophagus may result in esophageal perforation.