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 inst...

Introduction: Corrosive ingestion is the major cause of esophageal stricture in our country. Mitomycin–C, an anthracycline derived from Streptomyces caespitosus, has both antineoplastic and antiproliferative properties. Use of mitomycin–C have been well documented in various ophthalmologic procedures and laryngo-tracheal conditions where it has been shown that mitomycin–C inhibited fibroblast p...

BACKGROUND the ingestion of chemical agents, of caustic nature, represents a serious problem for clinical toxicology. If the ingestion doesn't cause death during the acute period, it will most often cause severe side effects in the upper gastrointestinal tract during the chronic phase. AIMS The purpose of this study is to show the clinical, epidemiological and socio-economical characteristics...

Background: Caustics produce one of the most serious complications of poisonings. This research was aimed to study demographical, clinical and endoscopic findings in patients with corrosive injury. Methods: In a retrospective survey, all records of the patients who had been admitted to Razi and 17th Shahrivar hospital in Rasht city due to the ingestion of caustic agents during 2002-2009 and en...

background: caustics produce one of the most serious complications of poisonings. this research was aimed to study demographical, clinical and endoscopic findings in patients with corrosive injury. methods: in a retrospective survey, all records of the patients who had been admitted to razi and 17th shahrivar hospital in rasht city due to the ingestion of caustic agents during 2002-2009 and end...

Ingestion of caustic substances, either acidic or alkali, is a well-known cause significant mortality and morbidity in the pediatric adult populations. According to pH, physical form, amount, rate ingestion these wide range immediate as well possible subsequent chronic complications can result. Some patients may have minimal mild symptoms. However, others present with moderate even serious symp...