introduction: caustic ingestion is responsible for a spectrum of upper gastrointestinal tract injury from self-limited to perforation. this study conducted to evaluate clinical characteristics as well as surgical outcomes in patients with caustic ingestion.   materials and methods: between nov1993 to march 2011, 14 adults with a clinical evidence of corrosive ingestion were admitted into our in...

Congenital esophageal atresia needs to be surgically corrected as soon as possible. Some will present with post surgical stricture that needs to be dilated by a balloon dilator. This procedure is difficult in premature born due to infant esophageal size and availability of equipments. We herby report the first case in a premature infant with post surgical esophageal stricture of esophageal atre...

congenital esophageal atresia needs to be surgically corrected as soon as possible. some will present with post surgical stricture that needs to be dilated by a balloon dilator. this procedure is difficult in premature born due to infant esophageal size and availability of equipments. we herby report the first case in a premature infant with post surgical esophageal stricture of esophageal atre...

Most cases of esophageal benign stricture can be successfully managed with dilation; however, refractory stricture is often unresponsive to repeated dilation. Endoscopic incision is a novel technique for treating refractory esophageal stricture, although recurrence is noted in patients with stricture measuring greater than 1.5 cm, thus requiring the use of repeated incisions and/or preventive d...

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...

A 4-year-old boy was admitted to our hospital with a 4-year history of vomiting and bucking. He had a diagnosis of esophageal atresia at Day 2 after birth and underwent surgery. Stricture formed 1 year after surgery. Prior to admission, he had undergone balloon dilation four times, stenting twice, and surgery once. Esophageal barium meal examination showed two strictures in the middle and lower...

Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) enables wider tumor resection compared with endoscopic mucosal resection and en bloc resection of superficial esophageal neoplasms. However, ESD may cause difficult-to-treat stricture of the esophagus, and therefore, prediction of and measures against postoperative esophageal stricture are critical. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of ESD o...

background: using bouginage or balloon dilatation is the standard treatment for benign esophageal strictures. aùžbout two-thirds need repeated dilatations. for preventing recurrent strictures, many medications such as mitomycin-c have been used. mitomycin-c is a special antibiotic with anti-neoplastic characteristics, which inhibits fibroblast proliferation, reduces collagen production and decr...

BACKGROUND Prediction of the severity of esophageal injury following ingestion of a caustic substance is a challenging problem for clinicians. It was hoped that risk factors for the early prediction of esophageal stricture in such patients could be identified in this study. METHODS This study comprises an evaluation of 32 children with esophageal injury due to ingestion of caustic materials. ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the causes of esophageal stricture in pediatric patients and their response to endoscopic dilatation. METHODS Retrospective analysis of clinical and endoscopic data obtained from children and adolescents with esophageal stricture submitted to endoscopic dilatation between July 1993 and January 2003. RESULTS A total of 125 patients aged between 1 month and 16 years were i...