One hundred and one consecutive patients with oesophageal cancer, cancer of the cardia and gastric cancer extending upwards from the stomach to the oesophagus were treated from 1979 to 1985 with a policy that included radiotherapy treatment for 58. This heterogeneous group, which was considered together as oesophageal cancer, was subdivided according to anatomical location, histology and pretre...

Coins are commonly ingested foreign body (FB) in children, particularly the area just below cricopharyngeus muscle, being most common site of lodgement. The aim present study was to evaluate effectiveness point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) upper airway as an investigation arm guide and assist clinical management coin children with expectant for spontaneous passage. A total 50 oesophagus were chos...

The patient with peptic ulceration of the lower oesophagus has for a long time suffered his ulcer in a sort of " no-man's-land " to which the abdominal surgeon could not reach and to which the physician had no access. The radiologist passed it by as quickly as the force of swallowing would take him. The endoscopist saw it as through a glass darkly on the distant boundary of his territory, but w...

A histological and histochemical study was performed in the buccal cavity and papillae, which were around the teeth, as well as in the oesophagus and oesogaster of the Senegal sole, Solea senegalensis adult specimens. The oesophagus and oesogaster were made up of four distinct layers: mucosa, submucosa, muscular and serous. Two morphological types of epithelial cells were distinguishable in the...

A man with a crush injury of his upper abdomen developed bilateral pulmonary empyema after repair of tears of the oesophagus and liver. Attempts to withdraw chest drains led to recurrent septicaemia, treated by reinsertion of the drains plus administration of antibiotics. The communication of the empyema space with both the bronchial tree and the oesophagus was managed successfully with intermi...

Address: 1Registrar UK National Barrett's Oesophagus Registry (UKBOR), and Honorary Senior Lecturer, University Department of Surgery, Royal Free Hospital, Rowland Hill Street, London NW3 2PF, UK, 2Joint director UK National Barrett's Oesophagus Registry (UKBOR), and visiting Professor, University Department of Surgery, Royal Free Hospital, Rowland Hill Street, London NW3 2PF, UK, 3MRC Cancer C...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Administration of omeprazole to healthy volunteers was recently reported to increase proximal duodenal mucosal bicarbonate secretion. As human oesophagus also secretes bicarbonate, the hypothesis was tested that omeprazole may stimulate oesophageal bicarbonate secretion and thus contribute to the therapeutic efficacy of the drug in gastro-oesophageal reflux disease. SUBJEC...

Four cases of benign stricture of the oesophagus treated by reversed gastric tube oesophagoplasty are presented. The technique used is described in detail, and the advantages of this method over other ways of bypassing the oesophagus are discussed. The most important advantage is the restoration of normal deglutition with only one extrathoracic anasthomosis.

Peptic oesophagitis and peptic ulceration of the squamous epithelium of the oesophagus are secondary to regurgitation of digestive juices, are most commonly found in those patients where the competence ofthe cardia has been lost through herniation of the stomach into the mediastinum, and have been aptly named by Barrett (1950) " reflux oesophagitis." In the past there has been some discussion a...

A 3-month-old German shepherd puppy with a congenitally dilated oesophagus had radiographic, cinefluoroscopic, and oesophageal motility studies before a modified Heller operation was performed. Subsequent examination of the oesophagus revealed no ganglion cells, and the condition was considered to be identical with human achalasia. In dogs, this appears to be more common in the German shepherd ...