TREATMENT FOR SHORT ESOPHAGEAL STRICTURES IN CHILDREN

The authors find it necessary to identify a nosological entity of shor t esophageal strictures, up to 1.5-2.0 cm long, from the specific feat ures of their formation, clinical manifestations and from the possibil ity of widely using transesophageal methods of treatment. Among them, a procedure for intraesophageal compression of the scarring ring by us ing two types of devices in 64 patients was analysed. There was a posi tive result in 86 % of the patients. The remaining children underwent surgical interventions: resection of an esophageal portion with esopha gus-esophagus anastomosis and coloesophagoplasty. No deaths were recor ded. To objectivize the indications for either method of treatment, th e authors recommend esophageal NMR tomography.