title: [Observations related to causes and treatment of iatrogenic esophageal injuries].
abstract: One hundred and nine patients were treated in the years 1974-1996 at the Clinic of Thoracic Surgery, Silesian Academy of Medicine, for oesophageal perforation. The group consisted of 72 (66%) men and 37 (34%) women aged 6-89, mean 43 years. In 80 (73%) patients the condition was caused by foreign bodies and endoscopic interventions attempting to remove them, in 9 (8%) by dilation in result of postburn stenosis, in 6 (5%) by trauma, in 8 (7%) by spontaneous rupture, in 6 (5.5%) by other reasons, like tumor or burn. The injury was found within cervical segment in 53 (49%) patients, within thoracic segment in 55 (50%) patients and within abdominal segment in 1 (1%) patients. Fifty seven (52%) patients were admitted sooner than 24 hours after oesophageal injury while 52 (48%) were admitted later than that. A total of 21 (19.3%) patients died, including 3 (5.2%) of the former group and 18 (34.6%) of the latter. Surgical closure of the oesophageal perforation was applied in 40 (37%) patients- of them 4 (10%) died. Four patients with late (exceeding 24 h) diagnosis of oesophageal perforation had thoracotomy and two-layer closure. All of them have survived.
authors.affiliation: Katedry i Kliniki Chirurgii Klatki Piersiowej Slaskiej Akademii Medycznej w Katowicach.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gawrychowski
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Rokicki
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dziedzic
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bargieł
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Czyzewski
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002648:Child; D004106:Dilatation / Q000009:adverse effects; D004939:Esophageal Perforation / Q000209:etiology* / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D004945:Esophagoscopy / Q000009:adverse effects; D004947:Esophagus; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007049:Iatrogenic Disease; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015996:Survival Rate; D013908:Thoracotomy