Citation

Sebastián Domingo JJ, Santos Castro L, De Diego Lorenzo A, Castellanos Franco D, Pérez de Ayala V, Senent C. Rev. Esp. Enferm. Dig. 1990; 77(3): 176-178.

Vernacular Title

Papel de la endoscopia en las lesiones causticas gastroesofagicas.

Affiliation

Sección de Endoscopia Digestiva, Servicio Aparato Digestivo, Hospital General Gregorio Marañón, Madrid.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, Sociedad Espanola de Patologia Digestiva, Publisher Aran Ediciones)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2378754

Abstract

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.

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