Surgery for esophageal cancer ✔️✔️In most cases is palliative rather than curative
Mallory-Weiss tear clinical picture ✔️✔️Bright red blood after prolonged, forceful vomiting
Diagnosis of Mallory-Weiss tear ✔️✔️Endoscopy
Treatment of Mallory-Weiss tear ✔️✔️Photocoagulation during endoscopy
Boerhaave syndrome ✔️✔️Esophageal perforation following prolonged, forceful vomiting
Boerhaave syndrome clinical picture ✔️✔️Continuous, severe, epigastric and low sternal pain of
sudden onset
Fever, leukocytosis, very sick-looking patient
Diagnostic tests for Boerhaave syndrome ✔️✔️Contrast swallow: gastrografin first, barium if negative
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