ABSTRACT
The most frequent causes of the stenosis are as follows: Schatzki rings, structures as the complications of GERB', postcorrosive and postoperative at nosis. The Balloon dilatation is one from the therapeutic procedures of stenosis of the esophagus. By the clinic research is included 12 patients with the stenoses of the esophagus of the various cause. It is used the balloon dilatator (Olympus) of the diameter 16 and 18 mm, and the analysis 40 mm. In 11 patients the balloon dilatation was successful and led to the walking of the esophagus for endoscope. Only in one patient the dilatation was unsuccesful, because was applied two years after the occurrence of the stenosis caused by the corrosive esophagisitis. It is concluded that the balloon dilatation of the therapeutic procedures of the choice in stenosis of the esophagus.
