Surgical management of peptic esophageal stricture

Successful Use of Biliary Duct Balloon Dilator in Repairing Post-Surgical Esophageal Stricture in premature infant

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...

Successful Surgical Management of Cervical Esophageal Membranous Obstruction and Stricture in a Cattle Calf

Copyright: © 2016 Ali MM, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. *Corresponding author: Ahmed Ibrahim, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Postal Code: 70155, Egypt, Tel:...

Surgical management of esophageal carcinoma.

BUMC PROCEEDINGS 2003;16:280–284 Although esophageal carcinoma is not the most common tumor—it accounts for only 5% of all gastrointestinal tumors and 1% of all new tumors—it has nearly a 1:1 mortality ratio: each year there are 14,000 new cases and 13,000 related deaths in the USA. Men have esophageal carcinoma 3 to 5 times more often than women, and black men are 3 times more likely than whit...

Surgical management of esophageal carcinoma.

Surgical management of esophageal carcinoma is reviewed. The anatomy and biology are briefly mentioned, since these factors mitigate against the success of surgery. Staging, the key to proper treatment allocation and prognosis, is discussed, including the use of endoscopic ultrasonography, positron emission tomography, and thoracoscopy/laparoscopy. Patient selection and preparation for surgery ...

Oesophageal stricture: a complication of peptic ulcer.