ArticleiGIE : innovation, investigation and insights2025
Novel endoscopic cryoprobe extraction of acute food bolus impaction: a case report.
Article in iGIE : innovation, investigation and insights, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Acute food bolus impaction is frequently encountered in pediatric patients with underlying esophageal conditions. Traditional endoscopic methods for removing friable boluses, such as meat, are often time-intensive and challenging. This report explores the novel application of cryoadhesion, or freezing and adhering an object to a cryoprobe, for esophageal meat bolus extraction. A 25-year-old man with trisomy 21 and eosinophilic esophagitis presented with acute food bolus impaction. After unsuccessful conventional endoscopic maneuvers, a cryoprobe was externally attached to an endoscope and used to achieve cryoadhesion and extraction of the meat bolus. Within 10 minutes, the meat bolus was successfully removed attached to the cryoprobe without mucosal injury. The patient tolerated the procedure well and was discharged the next day without adverse events. Cryoadhesion via a flexible cryoprobe may offer a feasible alternative for removing challenging food impactions. Further investigation is warranted to evaluate its safety and efficacy.
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.