Esophageal stricture is a common issue faced by clinicians who care for patients with foregut disorders. Generally, strictures can be effectively managed using endoscopic techniques such as dilation. Improved control of the primary pathology, in most cases gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), is also typically effective in limiting recurrence of a stricture after therapy. However, while many...

Background: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the aetiology of posterior urethral stricture in children and analysis of results after delayed primary repair with extensive distal urethral mobilisation. Materials and Methods This was a retrospective study carried out in a tertiary care centre from January 2009 to December 2013. Results: Eight children with median age 7.5 years (range ...

The radiologists of the Royal Victoria Hospital have kindly allowed this compilation to be made from the ample collection of their x-ray records. The purpose is to improve diagnosis of the Plummer-Vinson stricture, a lesion often not identified, even when the patient complains of difficulty in swallowing. If there has been too often a failure on the part of our profession to understand the obst...

It is the object of this communication to demonstrate the following: (1) that syphilis must be considered as a factor in the etiology of rectal stricture, (2) that the pathogenesis of rectal stricture so caused may be identical with that of lymphogranuloma inguinale. As stated by Ravaut, Seneque, and Cachera'5, there are two principal clinical forms of stricture of the rectum, the one associate...

Anatomic distortion and displacement of hilar structures due to liver lobe atrophy and hypertrophy occasionally complicates the surgical approach for biliary stricture repair. Benign biliary stricture following hepatic resection deserves special consideration in this regard because the inevitable hypertrophy of the residual liver causes marked rotation and displacement of the hepatic hilum that...

Scleroderma is a generalized autoimmune disease with variable involvement of the skin and major organs (esophagus, lung, heart and kidney). Scleroderma is essentially a skin disease that frequently involves the digestive system. In scleroderma, the esophagus is the most frequently affected organ of the digestive system, and esophageal dysmotility, reflux and stricture may be observed in the adv...

Although dysphagia in patients treated for malignancy is usually related to reflux esophagitis, infectious esophagitis, malignant infiltration, or as a complication of radiation therapy, acute esophageal stricture resulting from chemotherapy is very rare. Only 2 prior cases have been described in the treatment of an adult patient with malignancy. We present a unique case of isolated chemotherap...

Ureteric strictures can be caused by traumatic pelvic surgery, urolithiasis and instrumentation. There are various treatment options for ureteric stricture, including laparoscopic ureteric reimplantation. A 56-year-old female with a history of chronic left pelviureteric junction obstruction presented with urosepsis secondary to right-sided urolithiasis. The patient had a left nephrectomy and de...

Background and study aims  Ischemic proctitis is a rare disease and comprises 2 % to 5 % of cases of ischemic colitis, because the rectum has abundant blood supply and rich collaterals. Herein, we report a case of a 73-year-old male patient with a pronounced rectal stricture caused by ischemic proctitis resulting from an abdominal aortic rupture and treated by endoscopic balloon dilation therap...

Retained esophageal foreign bodies are uncommon in pediatric practice and they should be endoscopically removed as soon as possible. In our patient, the appropriate management for coin ingestion was not done at the time of ingestion and thus led to retained foreign body and stricture formation. Esophageal stricture resulting from a long-standing lodgment of metallic foreign bodies has been repo...