Esophageal dilatation using the eder puestow dilators
| Autor: | M. W. L. Gear, C.M.S. Royston, B.L. Dowling |
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| Rok vydání: | 1976 |
| Předmět: |
Male
medicine.medical_specialty business.industry General Medicine Aspiration pneumonia medicine.disease Dilatation Surgical Equipment Surgery Resection Radiography Esophageal dilatation Esophageal Stenosis Fiberoptic endoscope Humans Medicine Frail elderly Hernia Intravenous diazepam Complication business Aged |
| Zdroj: | The American Journal of Surgery. 131:697-700 |
| ISSN: | 0002-9610 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0002-9610(76)90180-x |
| Popis: | We have performed fifty-one dilatations in twenty-six patients using an end-viewing fiberoptic endoscope and Eder Puestow dilators. All (except two) were performed using intravenous diazepam, the majority on an outpatient basis. The only complication has been a single case of aspiration pneumonia. We have found this method of esophageal dilatation particularly useful in the preoperative dilatation of benign strictures, and in those elderly frail patients who are unsuitable for surgery. Transthoracic resection of the stricture is avoided and thus transabdominal repair of the hiatus hernia may be undertaken. |
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