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

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

¹ Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada.
² Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Université Laval, Quebec Heart and Lung Institute, Québec, Québec, Canada.
³ Department of Thoracic Surgery, Université Laval, Quebec Heart and Lung Institute, Québec, Québec, Canada.
⁴ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Université Laval, Quebec Heart and Lung Institute, Québec, Québec, Canada.
⁵ Department of Anesthesiology, Université Laval, Quebec Heart and Lung Institute, Québec, Québec, Canada.
⁶ Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Université de Montréal, Montreal Heart Institute, Montréal, Québec, Canada.

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

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