Spirocercosis (Spirocerca lupi) in dogs has been mostly associated with the presence of esophageal granulomas that may transform to sarcomas; aortic aneurysms; mid-thoracic spondylitis; hypertrophic osteopathy; salivary gland necrosis; and pyothorax. Although the disease is frequently subclinical, esophageal dysphagia manifested by regurgitation, odynophagia, and hypersalivation is considered t...

A 26-year-old man visited our clinic because of a persistent cough. Although his chest roentgenography showed no abnormalities, a sputum culture revealed a positive result for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Computed tomography (CT) prior to antituberculous chemotherapy demonstrated an esophagomediastinal fistula with subcarinal lymphadenopathy. One week after the treatment, he complained of a seve...

Coins are commonly ingested foreign body (FB) in children, particularly the area just below cricopharyngeus muscle, being most common site of lodgement. The aim present study was to evaluate effectiveness point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) upper airway as an investigation arm guide and assist clinical management coin children with expectant for spontaneous passage. A total 50 oesophagus were chos...

It is often claimed that Kripke (1980) and Putnam (1975) established that many predicates, most importantly natural kind predicates, are like proper names in being rigid designators. This insight is generally regarded as having important consequences in the theory of necessary truths: the rigidity of terms such as 'Hesperus', 'Phosphorus', 'water' and 'H 2 O' is used in explaining why identity ...

This paper describes QLB, a quantified logic of belief that is a possible extension of the modal system KD45n to predicate level. The main features of QLB are that: (i) it is allowed to quantify over the agents of belief; (ii) the belief operator can be indexed by any term of the formal language; (iii) terms are not rigid designators, but are interpreted contextually; (iv) automatic theorem pro...

A 64-yr-old man was admitted because of repeated pneumonia. Both fiberoptic bronchoscopy and esophagoscopy revealed a large tracheoesophageal fistula (15 mm) in the right posterior trachea 1 cm beyond the carina. Coated nickel-titanium shape memory alloy Y shaped stent was planned to seal this fistula under general anesthesia. We took advantage of laryngeal mask airway to insert the fiberoptic ...

INTRODUCTION Foreign body ingestion is common among children and more common in boys and in children under the age of 3. It can present with a wide variety of symptoms like dysphagia and drooling or symptoms related to the upper aerodigestive tract. CASE REPORT A 20-month-old male presented with refractory croup and poor feeding since 2 weeks. Bronchoscopy and esophagoscopy was performed due ...

prevention has a main role in reducing the occurrence of corrosive ingestion especially in children, yet this goal is far from being reached in developing countries, where such injuries are largely unreported and their true prevalence simply cannot be extrapolated from random articles or personal experience. because of the accidental nature of the ingestions, the case fatality rate for pediatri...