Objectives: We look for the difference of CTGF expression in urethral stricture due to infection and trauma with Immunohistochemistry (IHC) and Enzymelinked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) methods. Methods: We measure the CTGF level from 5 urethral stricture tissue of patient with infection, 18 patients with traumatic urethral stricture. We used IHC and ELISA as method of CTGF measurement. We also ...

Oesophageal stricture and dysphagia after endoscopic sclerotherapy of oesophageal varices were assessed with regard to occurrence and severity and the relation to the treatment. We followed 34 patients for three to 47 months who had two to 25 treatments with submucosal, paravenous injections of polidocanol (3%). Twenty patients (59%) developed stricture or dysphagia; 14 both dysphagia and endos...

OBJECTIVE Stricture of the vesicourethral anastomosis remains a well-documented complication after radical retropubic prostatectomy. MATERIALS AND METHODS We performed a retrospective study of 294 patients with prostate cancer who underwent radical retropubic prostatectomy. Possible correlations between anastomotic stricture formation, tumor stage, positive surgical margins, number of anastom...

Treatment with a combination of chemotherapy and radiotherapy is known to be associated with oesophageal stricture in both children and adults with malignancies. However, oesophageal stricture resulting from chemotherapy alone is a rare complication, with few reports on it. We experienced a rare paediatric case of oesophageal stricture caused by chemotherapy for osteosarcoma of the left distal ...

Endoscopic therapy by endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), stricture dilation, and sequential multiple stent placement is the standard treatment option for benign biliary strictures, and has favorable results [1]. Occasionally, tight biliary stricture can pose a technical challenge by not allowing the guide wire to pass. Recently, endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided biliary acc...

Urethral stricture is a challenging surgical problem since the ancient time. Its outcome is very poor because of the high recurrence rate 40.0-50.0% whatever procedure is conducted to treat the condition. Between January 2004 to December 2007, 61 cases with urethral stricture were treated in our hospital. Management of stricture was decided according to the grading of urethral stricture. Of 61 ...

BACKGROUND Intestinal stricture is an important complication of necrotising enterocolitis (NEC). We aimed to describe clinical profile and identify the risk factors for post-NEC intestinal strictures. METHOD A retrospective study of infants with NEC over 10 year period. RESULTS Of the 61 infants with NEC, 18 (29.5%) developed intestinal strictures. Leucocytosis and longer length of bowel re...

Introduction: Treatment with a combination of chemotherapy and radiotherapy is known to be associated with gastrointestinal stricture in both children and adults with malignancies. However, gastrointestinal stricture resulting from chemotherapy alone is a rare complication in paediatric malignancies. We experienced a rare case of jejunal stricture causing small bowel obstruction in a child with...

Esophageal stricture is a severe adverse event after circumferential endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD). Steroid administration is a new method to prevent stricture formation. We performed a meta-analysis to investigate the efficacy and safety of steroid administration to prevent esophageal stricture after circumferential ESD. PubMed, the Cochrane Library, EMBASE, Chinese Biomedical Databas...

Hilar cholangiocarcinoma is the most common cause of a stricture in the hilar region, and hilar stricture in the absence of any previous surgical intervention should be considered to indicate malignant disease until proven otherwise. We present a rare case of isolated hilar tubercular stricture, all the features of which were suggestive of malignancy.