BACKGROUND/AIMS To evaluate the efficacy and safety of propofol and midazolam for sedation during esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) in children. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the hospital records of 62 children who underwent ambulatory diagnostic EGD during 1-year period. Data were collected from 34 consecutive patients receiving propofol alone. Twenty-eight consecutive patients who rece...

In the first 24 hours after hospitalization, an emergency esophagogastroduodenoscopy was done and corrosive damages were observed along the esophagus, in the stomach and partially in the duodenum that bled temporarily. Postcorrosive burns of the esophagus and stomach of grade III according to Kikendal’ classification were confirmed and bleeding from the mucous membrane, submucosis and muscle la...

We report here the case of a 15−year−old patient with symptoms characteristic of intestinal bleeding and severe anemia, who required repeated transfusions. The hematochemical parameters (erythrocyte sedimentation rate, CRP (c−reactive pro− tein), antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibo− dies, anti−Saccharomyces cerevisiae anti− bodies (ASCA), antiendomysium antibo− dies, and the transglutaminases), a...

Ménétrier's disease, also known as hyperplastic protein-losing gastropathy, is a rare, idiopathic, acquired, premalignant condition associated with gastric carcinoma. Its association with signet ring cell cancer of the stomach has been previously reported only twice. We present the third case of histologically confirmed concurrent Ménétrier's disease with signet ring carcinoma of the stomach, i...