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To be familiar with anatomy and the microflora of the esophagus

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  1. Surgery, Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, Director of the Division of Acute Care Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Demetrios Demetriades MD, PhD, FACS (Professor)

  2. Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Acute Care Surgery and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Peep Talving MD, PhD, FACS & Lydia Lam MD, FACS

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Surgical Research Department, Clinical Division for General Surgery, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

    Abe Fingerhut

  2. Department of Abdominal Surgery, University of Helsinki Meilahti Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

    Ari Leppäniemi

  3. Department of Surgery, University of California San Diego Health Sciences, San Diego, California, USA

    Raul Coimbra

  4. Division of General Surgery, University of Pittsburgh UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

    Andrew B. Peitzman

  5. R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Thomas M. Scalea

  6. Emergency Surgery Unit, University Hospitals of Lyon Centre Hospitalier Lyon-Sud, Pierre-Bénite, France

    Eric J. Voiglio

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Demetriades, D., Talving, P., Lam, L. (2016). Esophageal Emergencies. In: Fingerhut, A., Leppäniemi, A., Coimbra, R., Peitzman, A., Scalea, T., Voiglio, E. (eds) Emergency Surgery Course (ESC®) Manual. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21338-5_12

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