Stents for benign and malignant esophageal strictures.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Hourneaux de Moura, Eduardo Guimarães; Toma, Kengo; Goh, Khean ‐ Lee; Romero, Ronald; Dua, Kulwinder S.; Felix, Valter Nilton; Levine, Marc S.; Kochhar, Rakesh; Appasani, Sreekanth; Gusmon, Carla Cristina
- Source
- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Oct2013, Vol. 1300 Issue 1, p119-143. 25p.
- Subject
- *ESOPHAGEAL cancer
*SURGICAL stents
*ESOPHAGEAL surgery
*FISTULA
*SURGICAL excision
*STEROIDS
- Language
- ISSN
- 0077-8923
This paper presents commentaries on endotherapy for esophageal perforation/leaks; treatment of esophageal perforation; whether esophageal stents should be used for treating benign esophageal strictures; what determines the optimal stenting period in benign esophageal strictures/leaks; how to choose an esophageal stent; how a new fistula secondary to an esophageal stent should be treated; which strategy should be adopted when a fistula of a cervical anastomosis occurs; intralesional steroids for refractory esophageal strictures; balloon and bougie dilators for esophageal strictures and predictors of response to dilation; whether refractory strictures from different etiologies respond differently to endotherapy; surgical therapy of benign esophageal strictures; and whether stenoses following severe esophageal burns should be treated by esophageal resection or esophageal bypass. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]