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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"

Related CHORUS documents: Boerhaave syndrome Mallory-Weiss syndrome intramural esophageal dissection esophageal perforation V sign of Naclerio tracheo-esophageal fistula

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