Traumatic oesophageal perforation: a successful management based on the Pittsburgh Perforation Severity Score | Zendy

Luca Giulini | Zendy; Attila Dubecz | Zendy; Michael Schweigert | Zendy; H. J. Stein | Zendy

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Traumatic oesophageal perforation: a successful management based on the Pittsburgh Perforation Severity Score

Author(s) -

Luca Giulini,

Attila Dubecz,

Michael Schweigert,

H. J. Stein

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

european journal of cardio-thoracic surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.303

H-Index - 133

eISSN - 1873-734X

pISSN - 1010-7940

DOI - 10.1093/ejcts/ezy286

Subject(s) - perforation , medicine , retrospective cohort study , surgery , engineering , mechanical engineering , punching

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.

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