A total of 72 patients were operated for bleeding esophageal varices over five years. Cause of portal hypertension was cirrhosis in 33, Schistosomal fibrosis in 23 and a combination of the two diseases in 3 cases. Biopsy was not available in 13 patients. Fifty-eight patients were child grade A and B, while 14 patients were grade C. Overall, there were 16 hospital deaths (22.2%) and 28 patients ...

Primary treatment of carcinoma of the esophagus and cardia rests on surgical resection. Although recent advances have shown the suitability of endoscopic treatment in selected patients with very early cancers, and preliminary studies have suggested that responders to primary chemoradiation may be equivalent to resection in selected patients with squamous cell carcinoma, surgical resection remai...

introduction: although surgery is the corner stone of treatment for esophageal cancer, there have been widespread efforts to find new methods of treatment .therefore, neoadjuant crt certainly increases the rate of resectability and 3 years survival .in our research, we reviewed effects of neoadjuant rct on short-term complications and hospital mortalities. materials & methods: 114 cases of esop...

Case Description- A five-month-old male domesticated short hair cat with non-specific signs, weakness, coughing and dyspnea was referred to the clinic. Clinical Findings- The patient was primarily diagnosed with kyphoscoliosis induced by severe nutritional osteoporosis. After couple of days the case was referred without improvement in condition. Contrast radiographs revealed esophageal hiatal h...

  SUMMARY Bleeding of esophageal varices have a high mortality rate, and medical management is usualy unsuccessful. Surgical methods such as vascular ligation or shunting are expensive. High risk procedures with high mortality. Endoscopic sclerotherapy was applied in 104 patients with acute bleeding of esophageal varices during a period of 5 years in a prospettive and retrospective study. Th...

Esophageal cancer is the seventh leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide (410,000 new cases annually)(1). Asian, Middle Eastern, and East African countries have a markedly higher incidence of esophageal cancer than other areas. In the United States, the incidence of adenocarcinoma of the distal esophagus and gastroesophageal junction has progressively increased to approximately 70% of all esop...

The sentinel node (SN) concept has revolutionized the surgical staging of both melanoma and breast cancer over the past two decades. However, the validity of the SN hypothesis has been controversial for esophageal cancer, because SN mapping for esophageal cancer is technically complicated, and the number of early-stage esophageal cancer is very limited. Nevertheless previous studies nicely demo...

PURPOSE This study was undertaken to evaluate the long-term treatment of esophageal strictures in children with corrosive esophagitis and to determine the effect of self-bougienage on recurrent strictures. MATERIALS AND METHODS We reviewed the medical records of nine children that were treated for corrosive esophageal strictures from May 2000 to May 2008. Six males and three females were incl...

Several conditions require subcutaneous colon bypass surgery in the esophageal diseases treatment. Esophageal reconstructions are high risk procedures because of their morbidity and mortality rate. Cervical anastomotic strictures, colon transplant redundancy, recurrent dysphagia, intestinal obstruction, regurgitation, and aspiration are the most frequent late complications. The patient assessme...

BACKGROUND An aberrant right subclavian artery (ARSA) with an associated nonrecurrent right inferior laryngeal nerve (NRILN) is a relatively rare anomaly that occurs at a frequency of 0.3 to 2.0% of the general population. NRILN has been mainly documented in the head and neck region; it has been rarely described in patients with esophageal cancer, especially those undergoing thoracoscopic surge...