Citation

Chung WC, Paik CN, Jung JH, Kim JD, Lee KM, Yang JM. J. Korean Med. Sci. 2010; 25(3): 489-491.

Affiliation

Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Korean Academy of Medical Science)

DOI

10.3346/jkms.2010.25.3.489

PMID

20191054

PMCID

PMC2826729

Abstract

A 53-yr-old man presented with a two-day history of odynophagia and a foreign body sensation. Two days before admission, the patient began to experience odynophagia and a foreign body sensation in the chest after swallowing several extremely hot pieces of solid food (prawn) in haste. Endoscopy revealed a huge longitudinal ulcer, typical of friable hyperemic mucosa with necrotic debris along the full length of the esophagus in the posterolateral region. Here we present the clinical course of serial endoscopy of an acute thermal injury of the esophagus caused by solid food.

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