TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Chapter 40. Esophageal Emergencies A1 - Sokolosky, Mitchell C. A2 - Cline, David M. A2 - Ma, O. John A2 - Cydulka, Rita K. A2 - Meckler, Garth D. A2 - Handel, Daniel A. A2 - Thomas, Stephen H. PY - 2012 T2 - Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine Manual, 7e AB - Complaints of dysphagia, odynophagia, or ingested foreign body implicate the esophagus. Chest pain, upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding, malignancy, and mediastinitis may also be esophageal in nature. Many diseases of the esophagus can be evaluated over time in an outpatient setting, but several, such as esophageal foreign body and esophageal perforation, must be addressed emergently. SN - PB - The McGraw-Hill Companies CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=56272847 ER -