OBJECTIVE To determine the current public health burden of injuries due to caustic ingestion in children. DESIGN The 2009 Kids' Inpatient Database provides data on a sample of all pediatric hospital discharges in the United States during that year. Children with caustic ingestion injuries requiring hospitalization were identified by corresponding codes from the International Classification of...

Caustic esophageal injury results from accidental ingestion of corrosive in children and intentional in adults [1]. The common causes are ingestion of strong alkali and highly concentrated acids. Once a stricture is identified, esophageal dilatation is initiated and gradually advanced to relieve dysphagia. Chronic inflammation and fibrosis leads to dysplasia which predisposes the epithelium to ...

Acute death from caustic ingestion is uncommon. We report an autopsy case of acute fatality from suicidal ingestion of a liquid caustic soda solution with peritoneal leakage due to a stab wound to the stomach. The victim was a 58-year-old man, who died about 1 h after being transported to a hospital emergency care unit. There were corrosive erosions around the mouth and a stab wound in the lowe...

Voluntary or accidental ingestion of a caustic product is increasingly encountered in our country. Caustic esophageal stenosis the most common sequel. Its treatment involves instrumental dilation and/or surgery which particularly heavy. The aim of this study was to epidemiological, clinical and therapeutic aspects caustic strictures context. retrospective study took place from December 20...

prevention has a main role in reducing the occurrence of corrosive ingestion especially in children, yet this goal is far from being reached in developing countries, where such injuries are largely unreported and their true prevalence simply cannot be extrapolated from random articles or personal experience. because of the accidental nature of the ingestions, the case fatality rate for pediatri...

introduction: complications of caustic ingestion swallowing in children of singe to gullet severe  stricture and andoscopic actions and multiple surgeries is different that increase the risk of gastrointestinal perforation and gastrointestinal malignancies ..... because acid substances have  bad taste and these are tissue coalescence in location of contact thus attribute alkali make lose of inj...

Prevention has a main role in reducing the occurrence of corrosive ingestion especially in children, yet this goal is far from being reached in developing countries, where such injuries are largely unreported and their true prevalence simply cannot be extrapolated from random articles or personal experience. Because of the accidental nature of the ingestions, the case fatality rate for pediatri...