title: Esophageal rupture complicated by acute pericarditis.
abstract: Esophageal perforation is a serious condition with a high mortality rate. Delayed detection of esophageal perforation may result in devastating complications such as mediastinitis and pericarditis. Esophageal perforation is rarely due to aspiration of foreign bodies. Here we report the case of a 59-year-old male patient with complicated esophageal perforation due to ingestion of a chicken bone, whose first signs are considered to be acute non-specific pericarditis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Rize State Hospital, Rize, Turkey. drhakanduman@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Hakan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Duman
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Erzincan University Faculty of Medicine, Erzincan, Turkey.
authors.forename: Eftal Murat
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Bakırcı
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Recep Tayyip Erdogan University Faculty of Medicine, Rize, Turkey.
authors.forename: Zakir
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Karadağ
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Recep Tayyip Erdogan University Faculty of Medicine, Rize, Turkey.
authors.forename: Yavuz
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Uğurlu
mesh_terms: D002637:Chest Pain; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004562:Electrocardiography; D004939:Esophageal Perforation / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010493:Pericarditis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed