Treatment of esophageal stricture is important because esophageal stricture reduces the quality of life of patients by increasing their risks of dysphagia, weight loss, nutritional imbalance, and pneumonia due to aspiration. Esophageal stricture is mainly classified as benign or malignant esophageal stricture, and may occur as fibrous production and collagen deposition due to chronic ulceration...

Dear Editor, Anterior cervical spine fusion and plate fixation is a valuable procedure for the treatment of cervical spinal injury, spondylitic disease and intervertebral disc diseases. Esophageal perforation is one of the rare but serious complications following anterior cervical spinal surgery. Esophageal injury is usually due to the surgical exposure or the foreign metallic implant which usu...

A 56-year old woman was transferred to our hospital 1 day after balloon dilation for recently diagnosed achalasia that had been complicated by transmural esophageal perforation. Physical examination revealed tachycardia and fever, as well as left-sided pleural fluid. Emergency surgery was performed, which involved transhiatal primary closure of a 4-cm long transmural perforation, debridement of...

Pharyngeal and upper esophagus substitution is an ordinary procedure in adults, performed mainly for oncologic purposes, but it is rarely done in children. The authors present a case report of a free jejunal graft pharyngo/esophageal reconstruction with microvascular anastomosis to the primitive carotid artery and the internal jugular vein in a a 10-year-old girl who had a loss of lower pharynx...

The article presents the case of a 68-year-old patient with alcohol dependence syndrome, who was admitted, in serious condition, to the Department of Surgery due to esophageal intramural lesions of unclear etiology. The imaging studies showed no signs of transmural perforation of the esophageal wall. Esophagogastroscopy revealed intramural fluid reservoirs and small oval cavities with smooth ed...

Background: Migration of a foreign body to tissues outside the esophagus is rare but potentially lethal condition that requires prompt recognition and management to achieve a favorable outcome. Case report: we report a rare case of cardiac tamponade caused by esophageal perforation after foreign body ingestion in a 48-year-old man. Once the computed tomography (CT) demonstrated a 1.8 cm foreign...

Over a 6.5-year period, 5,848 patients who had ingested a foreign body were admitted to the ENT unit at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Hong Kong. Potentially serious complications developed in 12 patients (0.21%). Eight patients had an esophageal perforation; three had clinical evidence that their injury had been caused by the foreign body itself and five were deemed to have been injured iatro...

BACKGROUND Esophageal perforation after aortic replacement/stenting for aortic dissection or aneurysm is a rare but severe complication. However, its cause, standard treatment, and prognosis are unclear. We analyzed the treatment and outcome retrospectively from seven cases experienced at our hospital. CASE PRESENTATION The median age of the patients was 70 years (range, 41-86), and six of th...

Esophageal cancer is one of the most aggressive malignant neoplasms gastrointestinal tract, occupying eighth place in structure morbidity worldwide. Despite comprehensive approaches to treatment, mortality continues grow both gender groups, which moves this pathology sixth position from tumors. A lot patients undergo radiation therapy preoperative period or an independent version due peculiarit...