Corrosive Ingestion and Esophageal Replacement
| Autor: | Sameh Abdel Hay, Kokila Lakhoo, Hesham Soliman Safoury |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
education.field_of_study
medicine.medical_specialty medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Stomach digestive oral and skin physiology Population Perforation (oil well) Endoscopy Surgery medicine.anatomical_structure Corrosive ingestion medicine Ingestion Esophagus education business Caustic ingestion |
| Zdroj: | Pediatric Surgery ISBN: 9783030417239 |
| Popis: | Public health drive is required to educate our population about the dangers of corrosive products. Safe storage of corrosive liquids, out of reach from children, is needed. Caustic ingestion produces a progressive and devastating injury to the esophagus and stomach. Caustic material ingestion is mostly accidental in children. Alkaline caustics and acids are the commonest chemicals implicated in caustic burns. Stricture formation with the inability to swallow food after the injury is inevitable in some cases. Diagnosis is by imaging and endoscopy. The goals of therapy is to prevent and treat perforation as early as possible, to avoid strictures of the esophagus and stomach, and to replace or bypass the damaged organ to allow normal swallowing of food. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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