A 71-year-old male underwent diagnostic esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD), consequently developing sustained sore throat and dysphagia with fever. He consulted an otolaryngologist 3 days later. Computed tomography (CT) showed free air outside the esophageal lumen, indicating possible perforation. At time of admission to our hospital, his left neck was swollen skin erythema at crycopharyngeous le...

Esophageal perforation is a serious possible complication after anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF). It usually occurs during the first postoperative day. Esophageal perforation is a potentially life-threatening complication. A 63-year-old man who underwent ACDF 8 years prior visited our emergency room with recurrent aspiration pneumonia, fever, dysphagia and neck pain. Endoscopic st...

The purpose of the study. To study possibilities computed tomography (CT) in diagnosis spontaneous hematoma esophagus, including process dynamic observation. Materials and methods. A retrospective analysis CT results 11 patients with esophageal treated at N.V. Sklifosovsky Research Institute SP period 2005–2020 is presented. All underwent a comprehensive laboratory instrumental examination, CT....

Instrumental perforation of the oesophagus is a serious and, unfortunately, not a very rare accident. The occurrence in addition of perforation of a duodenal ulcer constitutes a situation which is rare, difficult to diagnose, and fraught with great danger to the patient. Simultaneous perforation of multiple peptic ulcers has been described in several reports since that of Finney (1900). As pept...

Acute mediastinitis is one of the most aggressive chest diseases. The mortality rate ranges between 14% and 42%. We present a retrospective analysis of a series of 26 cases (20 men and 6 women) treated between January 1994 and March 2002 and review the literature. Mediastinitis originated in the esophagus in 17 patients (8 postoperative, 4 due to iatrogenic perforation, 4 due to noniatrogenic p...

Endoscopic botulinum toxin injection is considered a safe and viable option for the management of achalasia [1,2]. Although esophageal perforation and mediastinitis are well-documented complications of this treatment, pseudo-aneurysm formation of the thoracic aorta following intersphincteric injection is exceedingly rare [3]. We report the first published fatality from a thoracic aorta pseudo-a...

oreign body (FB) impaction in the esophagus is a common and serious health problem. Foreign bodies can lead to many complications such as esophageal perforation, mucosal erosions1 and fistulizations.2 Complication from esophageal FB can include death.3 The maximum incidence of esophageal FB occurs among children under 5 years old.4 The most common kind of the esophageal FBs in Oman are mutton b...

Spontaneous rupture of the oesophagus is a medical emergency the outcome of which is often fatal. Although considered rare, 200 cases were collected from the medical literature by Moynihan in 1952. However, the diagnosis of this condition is frequently overlooked or may be made in terminal states or post-mortem. Early detection with surgical repair may mean the difference between survival or de...

Oesophageal perforation following blunt trauma is rare and accounts for less than 10% of all oesophageal ruptures. Review of published reports revealed only two cases of isolated oesophageal perforation after minor blunt trauma, and these were as a direct result of the Heimlich manoeuvre. This paper describes a case of perforation of the oesophagus as an isolated injury following blunt minor tr...

dysphagia over a 2-month period. Transnasal endoscopy with an ultrathin endoscope (Fujinon EG-530N; Fujinon, Wayne, New Jersey, USA) was used. An ulcerative tumor was found in the middle esophagus (●" Fig. 1), and the biopsy revealed squamous cell carcinoma. A feeding tube was placed over a guidewire. A chest computed tomography (CT) scan was performed the next day to evaluate the esophageal ca...