TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1990//
TI  - Role of endoscopy in caustic gastroesophageal lesions
JO  - Revista Espanola de Enfermedades Digestivas
A1  - Sebastián Domingo, J. J.
A1  - Santos Castro, L.
A1  - De Diego Lorenzo, A.
A1  - Castellanos Franco, D.
A1  - Pérez de Ayala, V.
A1  - Senent, C.
SP  - 176
EP  - 178
VL  - 77
IS  - 3
N2  - From 1984 to 1989 we have examined endoscopically 191 patients who ingested, for different causes, some type of caustic substance. The mean age was 36.8 +/- 21 years. 57% were female and 43% males. The most common substance was lye (52%). The clinical symptoms consisted mainly of epigastric pain and odynophagia. The most prevalent lesion was oesophagitis, of variable degrees (58%). Complications related to the ingestion of the caustic appeared in 20% of the patients; three of them died. The most common sequela was oesophageal stenosis and secondly gastric stenosis. Males ingested acids more frequently than females (P less than 0.001). In 20% of the cases the ingestion of the caustic was for suicide while in children all the cases were accidents.<p /> <p>Language: es</p>
LA  - es
SN  - 1130-0108
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -