An oesophageal benign stricture: Endoscopy treatment limitation and surgical management in a heifer

Teeth and benign oesophageal stricture.

In patients undergoing upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, benign oesophageal strictures were significantly more frequent (p less than 0.01) in those with severe tooth loss than in controls of the same age. This may be because of edentulous patients eating less solid and more liquid food, which would otherwise dilate the lower oesophagus, or poor salivary flow leading to both tooth loss and impai...

Oesophageal stricture: a late complication of endoscopy?

Intramural pseudodiverticulosis--an unusual cause of benign oesophageal stricture.

Three cases of intramural pseudodiverticulosis of the oesophagus are described together with a review of the relevant literature. This unusual condition, diagnosed by characteristic features on the barium swallow, is associated with a high incidence of benign oesophageal stricture which responds readily to endoscopic dilatation.

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and benign oesophageal stricture.

Drug histories were obtained from 76 patients at the time of initial Eder-Puestow dilatation for benign oesophageal stricture. Six patients had consumed drugs known to cause oesophageal ulceration (emepronium bromide and potassium preparations). Of the remaining 70 patients, 22 had regularly taken a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug before the onset of dysphagia compared with 10 patients in ...

Benign oesophageal stricture in Barrett's columnar epithelialised oesophagus and its responsiveness to conservative management.

The response to treatment of peptic oesophageal stricture associated with columnar lined (Barretts) oesophagus (CLO) has been compared with that in peptic stricture without CLO. Benign oesophageal stricture was present in 23 (41%) of 56 patients consecutive with CLO. In 18 the stricture lay at the squamocolumnar mucosal junction and was associated with reflux oesophagitis, in five it was situat...