[Stenotic peptic esophagitis following gastric intubation].
In the light of five personal observations and after review of the literature, we call the attention on the possible occurrence of stenosing peptic oesophagitis after a medical act as frequent as apparently innocuous as is a nasogastric tube. However, if the tube itself may play a role in the apparition of the peptic oesophagitis, the primordial favoring element seems to be an often unknown, preexisting hiatal hernia. Prevention and precocious anti-acid treatment are of indisputable usefulness and efficacity. The surgical act, if it takes place, must not only take care of the stenosis but, more importantly, of the reflux.
D002675:Child, Preschool; D004940:Esophageal Stenosis / Q000150:complications / Q000209:etiology; D004942:Esophagitis, Peptic / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007441:Intubation, Gastrointestinal / Q000009:adverse effects*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography
Oesophagite peptique sténosante après sondage oeso-gastrique.