Traumatic rupture of the esophagus occurred in 1 patient who presumably had bled from peptic esophagitis. Bleeding had been intermittently controlled by recurrent use of the tube over an eight-day ...

Her complaint alleges she developed a Mallory-Weiss tear, the medical term for a torn esophagus, because of the vomiting and spent a week in hospital. Fioretti's complaint, which has been reviewed ...