Complex Esophageal Stricture Managed with Balloon Dilation and Fully‐Covered Metal Stent
Brett Hoskins,
Kenneth Ng
Abstract:A 3-year-old girl with a history of metastatic paraspinal neuroblastoma status post resection and bone marrow transplantation, complicated by chemotherapy-related mucositis (cyclophosphamide and topotecan), presented with feeding intolerance and an esophageal stricture on an esophagram. An esophagogastroduodenoscopy showed a distal esophageal stricture ~3 cm above the lower esophageal sphincter, measured to be 5.5 mm in diameter and 2 cm long using endoluminal functional lumen imaging probe (End-oFLIP) (Fig. 1… Show more
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