Role of Endoscopy in the Management of Boerhaave Syndrome

• Main Authors: Juan Ignacio Tellechea (Author), Jean-Michel Gonzalez (Author), Pablo Miranda-García (Author), Adrian Culetto (Author), Xavier Benoit D'Journo (Author), Pascal Alexandre Thomas (Author), Marc Barthet (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Korean Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, 2018-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Boerhaave syndrome (BS) is a spontaneous esophageal perforation which carries high mortality. Surgical treatment is well established, but the development of interventional endoscopy has proposed new therapies. We expose our experience in a Gastrointestinal and Endoscopy Unit. With a retrospective, o...