Case Reports in Surgery
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 503151, 4 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/503151
Case Report
Laparoscopic Repair of a Large Duodenal Perforation Secondary to an Indwelling Nasogastric Tube in a Tracheotomized Adult
Department of General, Laparoscopic and Gastrointestinal Surgery, MOSC Medical College Kolenchery, Cochin 682311, India
Received 7 January 2013; Accepted 30 January 2013
Academic Editors: P. De Nardi, T. Hotta, and S.-i. Kosugi
Copyright © 2013 Sanoop Koshy Zachariah. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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