esophageal trauma

• emetic trauma:
  • mucosal: Mallory-Weiss syndrome
  • intramural: intramural dissection
  • transmural: Boerhaave syndrome

• non-emetic trauma:
  • instrumentation
  • blunt trauma to chest
  • penetrating trauma
  • "taco tear"

© 2002, C.E. Kahn, Jr.
2002-04-18