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Volume 2009, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 0253-8253
  • EISSN: 2227-0426

Abstract

A 32-year-old man presented to the emergency department complaining of difficulty of swallowing. Four weeks ago he swallowed an unknown quantity of a bleaching substance (sodium hypochlorite) by mistake and was admitted to the hospital for three days. A barium swallow via a naso-oesophageal tube was carried out.

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