herself to the emergency room with dysphagia 18 hours after ingesting a tablet of paracetamol. She had suffered from multiple episodes of dysphagia before. As shown in l" Fig. 1, an upper gastrointestinal series radiograph taken after admission revealed obstruction of the proximal third of the esophagus. Emergency esophagoscopy revealed a dilated esophagus and the tablet at the end of the oral ...

OBJECTIVES This study aims to report our experience in the management of foreign body (FB) impaction in esophagus in the Ear-Nose-Throat Clinic, University Clinical Center of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. PATIENTS AND METHODS Seventy-one patients (44 males, 27 females; mean age 32.99±28.57 years; range 1 to 81 years) who admitted to our clinic between January 2003 and December 2013 with a hi...

A 5-day-old male neonate was referred for removal of foreign body. Baby had accidentally ingested a gold finger ring presented to her by grandmother. Baby was brought to outside hospital in stable clinical condition. Initial Xray neck and chest showed radio-opaque foreign body at level of cricopharynx. Baby was posted for rigid esophagoscopy under anesthesia. But foreign body was not found in t...

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...

OBJECTIVE To report the prevalence of esophagitis in patients with pH-documented laryngopharyngeal reflux. STUDY DESIGN Prospective study of 58 consecutive patients with documented laryngopharyngeal reflux, all of whom underwent transnasal esophagoscopy as part of their reflux evaluations. METHODS All patients with a diagnosis of laryngopharyngeal reflux confirmed by abnormal pharyngeal pH ...

BACKGROUND Panendoscopy, or the evaluation of the upper aerodigestive tract with oral inspection, direct laryngoscopy, esophagoscopy, bronchoscopy, or some combination of these procedures, is a valuable tool in the evaluation of patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). Despite the many advances made in imaging technology in recent years, these modalities cannot replace the s...