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Case Reports
. 2020 Jul 25;4(5):331-336.
doi: 10.1016/j.case.2020.06.006. eCollection 2020 Oct.

Esophageal Perforation with Transesophageal Echocardiography in an Elderly Patient with Prominent Vertebral Osteophytes: A Case Report and a Review of the Literature

Olivier Royer  1 , Étienne J Couture  2 , Frédéric Nicodème  3 , Dimitri Kalavrousiotis  4 , Takumi Codere Maruyama  5 , André Denault  6 , Stephan Langevin  2
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Esophageal Perforation with Transesophageal Echocardiography in an Elderly Patient with Prominent Vertebral Osteophytes: A Case Report and a Review of the Literature

Olivier Royer et al. CASE (Phila). .
No abstract available

Keywords: Complication; Esophagus; Osteophytes; Perforation; Transesophageal echocardiography.

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Figure 1
(A) Postoperative chest CT showing a new right pleural effusion (blue arrow). (B) Postoperative chest CT showing air bubbles in the mediastinum (yellow arrows).
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Figure 2
(A) Preoperative axial view of chest CT showing a prominent anterior thoracic osteophyte at T7-T8 (blue arrow) in close proximity (5 mm) to the esophagus (yellow arrow). (B) Preoperative sagittal view of chest CT.
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Figure 3
(A) Lateral flexion of the GE 6VT-D probe. The probe can move 4 cm laterally to each side. (B) Retroflexion movement of the GE 6VT-D probe that can reach 4 cm.
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