Balloon dilation of an esophageal stenosis in a patient with recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa.
We report a 13-year-old boy with recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa who had dysphagia due to esophageal stenosis. A balloon dilation was successfully performed under flexible endoscopic and fluoroscopic control. The early and long-term follow-up was characterized by the disappearance of dysphagia, weight gain, and improvement of his skin lesions.
Naehrlich
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Children's Hospital, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany, and Children's Hospital, Coburg, Germany. lutz.naehrlich@stud.uni-erlangen.de
Lang
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Schamberger
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Behrens
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D000293:Adolescent; D002404:Catheterization; D016108:Epidermolysis Bullosa Dystrophica / Q000150:complications* / Q000235:genetics; D004940:Esophageal Stenosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D005808:Genes, Recessive; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male