A Novel Endoscopic Method to Relieve Food Impaction Using an Inflatable Balloon

Food impaction in the esophagus is a relatively common medical emergency. Most of these food impactions are relieved spontaneously. But for complete esophageal food impactions or impactions not relieved spontaneously, traditional endoscopic methods like using a Roth net, polypectomy snare, or rat or...

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Main Authors: Rohit Anand, Shashank Garg, Ethan Dubin, Sudhir Dutta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2015-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Gastrointestinal Medicine
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/357253
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