Traumatic oesophageal perforation: a successful management based on the Pittsburgh Perforation Severity Score. (9th August 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Giulini, Luca; Dubecz, Attila; Schweigert, Michael; Stein, Hubert J
• Is Part Of: European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery. Volume 55:Number 4(2019)
• Page Start: 792
• Page End: 794
• Publication Date: 2018-08-09
• Subjects: Oesophageal perforation -- Oesophageal stenting -- Pittsburgh Perforation Severity Score; Heart -- Surgery -- Periodicals; Chest -- Surgery -- Periodicals; 617.54
• DOI: 10.1093/ejcts/ezy286
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1010-7940

Abstract

Abstract: Oesophageal perforation is a severe life-threatening clinical condition with high mortality and morbidity needing rapid interdisciplinary approach to be effectively managed. Recently, on the basis of multicentric retrospective data, we proposed a decision tree for the treatment of oesophageal perforations based on the Pittsburgh Perforation Severity Score (PSS). We now report the first case of a traumatic oesophageal perforation, which was successfully treated according to the application of the PSS decision tree.