Esophageal perforation is a serious condition with a high mortality rate. Successful therapy depends on the size of the rupture; the time elapsed between rupture and diagnosis, and the underlying health of the patient. Common causes of esophageal perforation include medical instrumentation, foreign-body ingestion, and trauma. A case of esophageal perforation due to fish bone ingestion in a 67-y...

BACKGROUND Esophageal perforation is a serious condition with a high mortality rate. Successful therapy depends on the size of the rupture; the time elapsed between rupture and diagnosis, and the underlying health of the patient. Common causes of esophageal perforation include medical instrumentation, foreign-body ingestion, and trauma. CASE REPORT A case of esophageal perforation due to fish...

A patient with past history of esophageal stenosis complained of sudden dysphagia in the erect position which was relieved transiently in the supine position. Initial esophagoscopy failed to detect any mass in the lumen. Esophagogram revealed shifting foreign body from lower stenotic site to upper dilated area with postural change from the erect to the supine position. A French bean was detecte...

Esophageal ulcers are a rare cause of upper gastrointestinal bleeding. This report describes the etiology, treatment, complications, and outcome of esophageal ulcers. An esophageal ulcer is defined as a discrete break in the esophageal mucosa with a clearly circumscribed margin; esophageal ulcers were seen in 88 patients from a total of 7564 esophagogastroduodenoscopies done by one surgeon at a...

This Guideline is an official statement of the European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE). It addresses the removal of foreign bodies in the upper gastrointestinal tract in adults. Recommendations Nonendoscopic measures 1 ESGE recommends diagnostic evaluation based on the patient's history and symptoms. ESGE recommends a physical examination focused on the patient's general condition...

A 22-year-old man was admitted to the emergency department with dysphagia and chest pain after inadvertently swallowing a metal bottle cap. Two hours earlier he had opened a bottle of cider using his teeth and accidently swallowed the bottle cap with the first sip of cider. After the incident, he was able to swallow fluids and saliva. He had no other previous medical history and no background o...

relatively common indication for urgent endoscopy [1]. We report a case, and demonstrate with video, the endoscopic removal of a perforating fish bone and the endoscopic closure of the perforation. A 52-year-old man presentedwith odynophagia and retrosternal pain of 9 hours duration following a fish meal. Chest radiographs were normal. Upper endoscopy demonstrated a fish bone impacted transvers...

Dear Editor, Anterior cervical spine fusion and plate fixation is a valuable procedure for the treatment of cervical spinal injury, spondylitic disease and intervertebral disc diseases. Esophageal perforation is one of the rare but serious complications following anterior cervical spinal surgery. Esophageal injury is usually due to the surgical exposure or the foreign metallic implant which usu...