Small Opening, Big Problem: Esophageal Food Bolus Impaction and Microstomia

Patients presenting to the hospital with esophageal food bolus impaction often need urgent upper endoscopy. However, patients with trismus and microstomia can pose a real challenge because endoscopic access in these patients can be difficult. We present a unique transoral endoscopic approach for eso...

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Autores principales: Madhu, Mathew, Mbachi, Chimezie, Aisien, Efesomwan, Attar, Bashar, Kotwal, Vikram
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6855539/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31832452
http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.0000000000000215
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author Madhu, Mathew
Mbachi, Chimezie
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Kotwal, Vikram
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description Patients presenting to the hospital with esophageal food bolus impaction often need urgent upper endoscopy. However, patients with trismus and microstomia can pose a real challenge because endoscopic access in these patients can be difficult. We present a unique transoral endoscopic approach for esophageal food bolus disimpaction in a patient with microstomia and trismus resulting from chronic graft-vs-host disease.
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spelling pubmed-68555392019-12-12 Small Opening, Big Problem: Esophageal Food Bolus Impaction and Microstomia Madhu, Mathew Mbachi, Chimezie Aisien, Efesomwan Attar, Bashar Kotwal, Vikram ACG Case Rep J Case Report Patients presenting to the hospital with esophageal food bolus impaction often need urgent upper endoscopy. However, patients with trismus and microstomia can pose a real challenge because endoscopic access in these patients can be difficult. We present a unique transoral endoscopic approach for esophageal food bolus disimpaction in a patient with microstomia and trismus resulting from chronic graft-vs-host disease. Wolters Kluwer 2019-10-22 /pmc/articles/PMC6855539/ /pubmed/31832452 http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.0000000000000215 Text en © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of The American College of Gastroenterology. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CCBY-NC-ND) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) , where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal.
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