title: [Boerhaave syndrome: a rare cause of acute thoracic pain].
abstract: In a 74-year old female patient suffering from acute thoracic pain, vomiting, and dyspnoea, the diagnosis of Boerhaave's syndrome was made. After medical treatment the patient was dismissed in a sufficiently satisfactory condition. If symptoms like vomiting, severe thoracic pain, pneumomediastinum, pneumothorax or hydropneumothorax on the left side occur, a rupture of the oesophagus should be taken into account especially in case of abuse of alcohol. The early diagnosis is decisive for the course of the disease and a lethality reduction.
authors.affiliation: Radiologische Abteilung des Allgemeinen Krankenhauses G. Papanikolaou, Thessaloniki, Griechenland.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Anastasiadou
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pilavaki
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Vafiadis
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Petridis
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Drevelengas
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000368:Aged; D002637:Chest Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004935:Esophageal Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous; D013577:Syndrome; D014839:Vomiting / Q000150:complications