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Ann Thorac Surg 1990;50:45-49
© 1990 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Esophageal perforation: A therapeutic challenge

Safuh Attar, MD*, John R. Hankins, MD, Charles M. Suter, PhD, Thomas R. Coughlin, MD, Alex Sequeira, MD, Joseph S. McLaughlin, MD

Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Maryland Medical School and Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland USA

* Address reprint requests to Dr Attar, University of Maryland Hospital, 22 S Greene St, Baltimore, MD 21201.

The records of 64 patients with esophageal perforation treated since 1958 were reviewed. There were 19 cervical perforations, 44 thoracic perforations, and one abdominal perforation. Thirty-one perforations (48%) were due to injury from intraluminal causes. Twenty (31%) resulted from extraluminal causes: penetrating wounds, 11; blunt trauma, 3; and paraesophageal operations, 6. Eleven (17%) were spontaneous perforations, and two (3%) were caused by perforation of an esophageal malignancy. Tee (91%) of 11 patients with cervical perforations treated less than 24 hours after injury survived compared with 6 (75%) of 8 patients treated more than 24 hours after injury; hence 16 (84%) of the 19 patients in the cervical group survived. In the thoracic group, 19 patients were treated within 24 hours with 16 survivors (84%) compared with 25 patients treated beyond 24 hours with 12 survivors (48%); hence 28 (64%) of the 44 patients in the thoracic group survived. The patient with an abdominal perforation survived. Thirty patients underwent primary suture closure of the perforation, and 25 (83%) lived. Seventeen patients had drainage, and 10 (59%) lived. Total esophagectomy was performed in 9 patients, 7 (78%) of whom survived. Exclusion-diversion procedures were performed in 5 patients, and 1 (20%) survived.




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