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To be familiar with anatomy and the microflora of the esophagus
Keywords
- Foreign Body
- Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunting
- Esophageal Perforation
- Cervical Esophagus
- Food Bolus
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Demetriades, D., Talving, P., Lam, L. (2016). Esophageal Emergencies. In: Fingerhut, A., Leppäniemi, A., Coimbra, R., Peitzman, A., Scalea, T., Voiglio, E. (eds) Emergency Surgery Course (ESC®) Manual. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21338-5_12
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