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Ann Thorac Surg 2006;82:1243-1244
© 2006 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Original Articles: General Thoracic

Invited commentary

Richard F. Heitmiller, MD

Department of Surgery, Union Memorial Hospital, JPB, 3333 N Calvert St, Suite 610, Baltimore, MD 21218-2895

(Email: richard.heitmiller@medstar.net).

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Few clinical problems are more frustrating to deal with and complex to manage than an occluded, or nearly occluded, cervical esophageal stricture. If the lumen remains open, the stricture can be managed with serial dilatations or with an increasing array of luminal stents. Cervical strictures can sometimes renarrow, even close, very quickly. Once this happens, they can no longer be dilated using the antegrade route. Options for management now become limited and invasive: . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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