A homemade endoscopic guillotine strikes again: removal of a nasogastric tube mysteriously knotted in the proximal third of the esophagus

Endoscopy 2022; 54(12): E676-E677
DOI: 10.1055/a-1738-9112

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Fabio Pinto do Couto

¹Department of Surgery, Riviera-Chablais Hospital, Rennaz, Switzerland

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Aurélie Cavin

¹Department of Surgery, Riviera-Chablais Hospital, Rennaz, Switzerland

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Olivier Pittet

¹Department of Surgery, Riviera-Chablais Hospital, Rennaz, Switzerland

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Paraskevi Archanioti

²Gastroenterology Unit, Riviera-Chablais Hospital, Rennaz, Switzerland

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Sébastien Godat

³Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Vaud University Hospital Centre (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland

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²Gastroenterology Unit, Riviera-Chablais Hospital, Rennaz, Switzerland

³Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Vaud University Hospital Centre (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland

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