background: ingestion of caustic agents can cause serious damages of the upper gastrointestinal tract and in some cases this kind of poisoning may have fatal outcomes. acute caustic intoxications are one of the main problems in the modern clinical toxicology since they mainly affect young people with psychic disorders, suicidal intent, and alcohol addiction. text: in diagnostic evaluation of th...

Les Lesions Laryngees et oesophayiennes de la maladie herpetique ant ete decrit recem­ment sur 5 cas (Annales de radiologie).  Ces lesions ont evolue vers une stenose orga­nique de l'oesophage dans 3 cas. L'aspzct radiologique de ces stenoses et lear evolution sont tres pronches des stenoses caustiques.  Un cas personnel de stenose oesophagienne de Ce meme type, 3 ans apres une episode aigue ...

Esophageal injury during radiofrequency (RF) ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF) is a known complication. It could range from mild esophagitis to esophageal ulcers. Atrio-esophageal fistula (AEF) the most dreaded rare but potentially life-threatening. Various measures reduce including temperature monitoring, reducing power on posterior wall and deviation have been used. cooling RF has used as ...

Confocal laser endomicroscopy (CLE) is a new endoscopic imaging technology that allows real-time, high-resolution observation of tomographic images mucosal cells and subcellular levels in vivo, detecting microscopic structural changes morphology, its vivo immediate pathological diagnostic capability can avoid delays diagnosis reduce the pain caused by repeated biopsies. CLE known as “optical bi...

Benign esophageal lesions include a wide variety of rare neoplasms, polyps, and cysts. In general, these lesions are asymptomatic and have little clinical importance. However, on occasion these lesions become symptomatic due to esophageal obstruction, airway obstruction, or compression of mediastinal structures. In these cases, as well as cases when it is unclear if the lesion is malignant or b...

Radiotherapy (RT) or chemoradiotherapy (CRT) is a potentially curative, non-surgical treatment option for esophageal cancer, although the rate of local failure within the esophagus remains relatively high. Salvage esophagectomy is not regarded as a common treatment for esophageal cancer, since it is a high-risk surgery with a relatively high surgical mortality rate. Salvage endoscopic resection...