[The role of fiber endoscopy in the treatment of patients with chronic stenosis of the hollow organs of the neck].

Abstract

Forty-eight patients with laryngeal, tracheal, and esophageal stenoses were treated making use of flexible endoscopes of various diameters and a kit of special instruments. Indications for endoscopic treatment were the presence of an 'overhang' along the upper edge of tracheostoma, laryngeal and tracheal granulation, cicatricial strictures of the esophagus with a lumen of less than 5 mm in diameter. Use of flexible endoscopes with a kit of special instruments helped do without many-staged surgical treatment in 20% of patients with chronic stenoses of hollow organs of the neck.

• Authors: N E Chernekhovskaia, V N Folomeev, T A Loginova
• Journal: Grudnaia i serdechno-sosudistaia khirurgiia (Grud Serdechnososudistaia Khir) 1993 Nov-Dec Issue 6 Pg. 77-8 ISSN: 0236-2791 [Print] Russia (Federation)
• Vernacular Title: Rol' fibroéndoskopii v lechenii bol'nykh s khronichekim stenozom polykh organov shei.
• PMID: 8312015 (Publication Type: English Abstract, Journal Article)

Topics

• Adolescent
• Adult
• Chronic Disease
• Electrocoagulation (instrumentation)
• Esophageal Stenosis (surgery)
• Esophagoscopes
• Esophagoscopy
• Female
• Fiber Optic Technology (instrumentation)
• Humans
• Laryngoscopes
• Laryngoscopy
• Laryngostenosis (surgery)
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Tracheal Stenosis (surgery)