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Shotgun injury compared to gunshot injury has been reported to have tendency to make less severe damage due to its characteristic low velocity and fragmentation. Recently, we encountered with a...
Foreign bodies are one of the most frequently observed accidental cases in the otolaryngological fields. Most of food pieces as foreign bodies are removable with a laryngoscope or a esophagoscope,...
Surgery for a mid-esophageal lesion requires an open thoracotomy, But authors resected out a stenotic thoracic esphageal lesion with laparoscopic instrument without open thoracotomy. The patient was 50 years old...
Kim SY, Oh TH, Kang HM, Jeon TJ, Seo DD, Shin WC, Choi WC, Choi JH
KMID: 2284224
Gut Liver.
2011 Sep;5(3):383-386.
Here, we report a case of corrosive injury-induced pharyngeal stricture in a 69-year-old female, which was successfully treated with endoscopic adhesiolysis using an electrosurgical knife. The patient had ingested sodium...
BACKGROUND: In most cases of a foreign body in the esophagus, an ENT specialist is consulted, which may be time consuming if not evaluated in a timely fashion. The patients...