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Bezoars are persistent concretions of indigestible material, usually seen in the stomach. Esophageal bezoars are very rare and generally occur in elderly patients with anatomic defects such as diverticulum or stricture, or with esophageal motility disorders. However, it is quite unusual that a gastric bezoar would be regurgitated into a normal esophagus during forceful vomiting. Endoscopic removal of a bezoar is safe and successful in most cases. A case of a gastric bezoar regurgitated into the esophagus was recently experienced and removed by an endoscopic polypectomy snare and bezoar (lithotripsy) basket.
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Aged , Humans , Bezoars , Constriction, Pathologic , Diverticulum , Esophageal Motility Disorders , Esophagus , SNARE Proteins , Stomach , VomitingABSTRACT
The esophagus or stomach can be perforated during diagnostic upper endoscopy in 0.03 to 0.1 percent. Instrumentation injury, as a whole, is probably the most common single cause of all cases of esophageal perforation. Most of the esophageal perforation result from either therapeutic maneuvers(dilation, sclerotherapy, foreign-body removal etc.) or underlying esophageal lesion(such as strictures or diverticular or neoplasm). Endoscopic perforation of the esophagus may be obvious immediately or within a few hours. Cervical pain, subcutaneous emphysema, fever, tachycardia, and characteristic radiographic appearances make the diagnosis easy, but some distal esophageal injuries are subtler, An immediate esophagogram should be obtained if peirforation is suspected. To select an appropriate course of management, precise delineation of location and the extent of perforation is necessary. The esophageal perforation can be managed conservatively by close observation, esophageal rest, and antibiotic coverage, but the mortality rate of medical treatment is near 12%. Causes of death are sepsis and multisystem organ failure. So we report a case of esophageal perforation by an endoscopic biopsy.
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Biopsy , Cause of Death , Constriction, Pathologic , Diagnosis , Endoscopy , Esophageal Perforation , Esophagoscopy , Esophagus , Fever , Mortality , Neck Pain , Sclerotherapy , Scoliosis , Sepsis , Stomach , Subcutaneous Emphysema , TachycardiaABSTRACT
Foreign bodies in the stomach are usually ingested by children under 5 years of age, persons with dentures, alcoholics, mentally disturbed individuals or prisoners with a purpose of secondary gain. Many patients will be asymptomatic and will be brought in by parents with a history of having swallowed something. The ingested foreign bodies are mainly coins, particles of metals, fish bones and etc. A needle or a toothpick in the stomach has been rarely reported in an adult.. We present two cases of patients: one case of patient with needle stuck in the stomach, who swallowed for the purpose of secondary gain, and the other case of patient with toothpick stuck in the stomach, who did not realize having swallowed it. A 23-year-old man, prisoner, was admitted to hospital due to epigastric pain after ingestion of a needle. Endoscopy showed a black needle, 1.2cm long stuck at the prepyloric antrum. It was removed by the endoscopic biopsy forceps through the overtube used in endoscopic variceal ligation and proved to be a needle with a length of 4.9 cm and a diameter of 0.1 cm. A 58-year-old woman developed an acute onset of hematemesis and epigastralgia, and presented to the emergency room. On admission, her blood pressure was 60/40 mmHg. An emergency endoscopy showed a yellowish, thin, stiff material 3.5cm long stuck at the greater curvature of the antrum with meat materials. It was removed by the above method and proved to an wooden tooth pick with a length of 6.5 cm and a diameter of 0.2 cm. No active bleeding was noted from the removed site. She did not realized she had swallowed the toothpick. She was discharged without complication.
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Adult , Child , Female , Humans , Middle Aged , Young Adult , Alcoholics , Biopsy , Blood Pressure , Dentures , Eating , Emergencies , Emergency Service, Hospital , Endoscopy , Foreign Bodies , Hematemesis , Hemorrhage , Ligation , Meat , Metals , Needles , Numismatics , Parents , Prisoners , Prisons , Stomach , Surgical Instruments , ToothABSTRACT
Carcinosarcoma is an uncommon pulmonary malignancy characterized by carcinomatous parenchyma and sarcomatous stroma. Pulmonary carcinosarcoma represented about 1% of the resected lung tumors. The predominant clinical features are productive cough, chest pain, dyspnea, hemoptysis, bronchiectasis, and atelectasis, but alternate atelectasis is rare. We report a case of pulmonary carcinosarcoma associated with alternate atelectasis of the right upper and lower lobe.