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ArticleClinical endoscopy2016

An Intractable Caustic Esophageal Stricture Successfully Managed with Sequential Treatment Comprising Incision with an Insulated-Tip Knife, Balloon Dilation, and an Oral Steroid.

Woong Ki Lee, Byung Sun Kim, Min A Yang, So Hee Yun, Young Jae Lee, Ji Woong Kim, Jin Woong Cho

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Article in Clinical endoscopy, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 33% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Woong Ki LeeDivision of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Presbyterian Medical Center, Jeonju, Korea.
Byung Sun KimDivision of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Presbyterian Medical Center, Jeonju, Korea.
Min A YangDivision of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Presbyterian Medical Center, Jeonju, Korea.
So Hee YunDivision of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Presbyterian Medical Center, Jeonju, Korea.
Young Jae LeeDivision of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Presbyterian Medical Center, Jeonju, Korea.
Ji Woong KimDivision of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Presbyterian Medical Center, Jeonju, Korea.
Jin Woong ChoDivision of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Presbyterian Medical Center, Jeonju, Korea.
Presbyterian Medical Center · KR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bougie or balloon dilation is a good short-term treatment for caustic esophageal strictures, although recurrence after dilation occurs in approximately 30% of these cases. Therefore, long-term treatment options are required in some cases, and endoscopic incisional therapy has been used for patients with an anastomotic stricture in the gastrointestinal tract. A 58-year-old woman presented with severe swallowing difficulty because of a caustic esophageal stricture, which was caused by accidental exposure to anhydrous acetic acid at infancy. She had undergone several previous bougie and balloon dilations but the stricture did not improve. We performed sequential treatment comprising incision with an insulated-tip knife, balloon dilation, and an oral steroid, which resulted in the patient's symptoms markedly improving. Thus, we report this case of an intractable caustic esophageal stricture, which was successfully treated using combined endoscopic sequential treatment.

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CausticsDeglutition disordersDilatationEsophageal stenosis

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PMID27515392
PMCPMC5152773
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