esophagoscopy

Examples

• All

• Patients with abnormal findings on barium swallow should undergo esophagoscopy.

  Academic text (2002)

• Second, flexible esophagoscopy is more likely to cause further contamination through the perforation because air insufflation is necessary to obtain a good view.

  Academic text (2003)

• The object was removed via rigid esophagoscopy.

  Academic text (2008)

• All 12 patients had undergone rigid rather than flexible esophagoscopy.

  Academic text (2003)

• Recently, transnasal fiberoptic esophagoscopy was introduced.

  Academic text (2002)

• We prefer rigid esophagoscopy performed under general anesthesia to flexible esophagoscopy performed under topical anesthesia.

  Academic text (2003)

• Among the entire population of 5,848 patients, esophagoscopy was performed in 519 (8.9%).

  Academic text (2003)

• Patients 1 and 7 had iatrogenic perforation of the cervical esophagus diagnosed during esophagoscopy.

  Academic text (2003)

• Transnasal esophagoscopy detected numerous small (<2 mm) white plaques scattered along the surface of the esophagus (Figure 1).

  Academic text (2009)

• We consider any suspicion of a perforation or neck abscess related to an ingested foreign body a strong indication for esophagoscopy because any treatment—conservative or surgical—will not be successful if a foreign body is left impacted.

  Academic text (2003)

Synonyms

E

endoscopy

vsesophagoscopy

• Specialized

7 5.8

A medical test that uses a thin tube with a light and camera to look inside the body

is limited to examining the food pipe with a flexible camera tube

How Invasive

esophagectomy

• Specialized

1 9.9

esophagoscopy

• Specialized

7.3

esophageal smear

• Specialized

7.5

barium meal

• Specialized

1 5.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology