Document Type
Article
Original Publication Date
2014
Journal/Book/Conference Title
World Journal of Emergency Surgery
DOI of Original Publication
10.1186/1749-7922-9-9
Date of Submission
August 2014
Abstract
The oesophagus is a difficult challenge for the surgeon because of its lack of serosal covering, the tenuous, segmental blood supply and the common delay in the diagnosis of injury. Early diagnosis is the key to successful management. Recent introduction of newer, minimally invasive techniques have provided management alternatives for both the normal and the diseased organ that is injured with both early and delayed diagnosis.
Rights
© 2014 Ivatury et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
Is Part Of
VCU Surgery Publications
Comments
Originally published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-9-9