The Hospital Bulletin, Vol. V, No. 3, May 15, 1909

The Hospital Bulletin, Vol. V, No. 3, May 15, 1909

The Hospital Bulletin, Vol. V, No. 3, May 15, 1909The esophagoscope has passed the experimental stage in...
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The Hospital Bulletin, Vol. V, No. 3, May 15, 1909

The Hospital Bulletin, Vol. V, No. 3, May 15, 1909

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The Hospital Bulletin, Vol. V, No. 3, May 15, 1909

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The Hospital Bulletin, Vol. V, No. 3, May 15, 1909

The esophagoscope has passed the experimental stage in the diagnosis and treatment of esophageal lesions. Its usefulness has been demonstrated so often that it would seem superfluous to dilate upon its value. Its use, however, is not as general as it should be. There are still those who consider esophagoscopy unnecessary or impracticable. At the Presbyterian Hospital we have had numerous instances of its practicability, and with us it has become the routine practice to examine all patients complaining of obscure esophageal symptoms. Dr. Chevalier Jackson records the case of a patient whose only symptom was a lump on swallowing. She appeared to be a neurasthenic, and his advice to have the esophagus examined was ignored by the family physician. Two months later, with the patient etherized for a radical antrum operation, he passed the esophagoscope and found a malignant growth. Three interesting cases have recently come under my observation, and they illustrate so well the value of the esophagoscope I shall report them somewhat in detail. The first patient was seen with Dr. E. B. Freeman; she was 67 years old. The morning before she came to the hospital, while eating ham, she swallowed a large piece that had not been sufficiently masticated. It lodged in the introitus esophagi and remained there. When she came to the hospital she had swallowed neither solid nor liquid food for nearly thirty-six hours. A half hour before examining the esophagus she was given a hypodermic of morphia and atropia. With the patient in the sitting position the throat and upper end of the esophagus were anesthetized with 10 per cent solution of cocaine. Jackson's laryngeal speculum was introduced and the larynx pulled forward. 43A large mass resembling somewhat an ulcerative epithelioma was seen, and proved to be the piece of ham. Dr. Freeman and I removed it piecemeal with Pfau's foreign body forceps. It required about forty-five minutes to remove it entirely. The patient stood the ordeal well, and was able to go home the same afternoon. For about a week she had temperature, cough and expectoration, but ultimately made a good recovery. In this case the esophagoscope probably saved the patient an esophagotomy. The second patient was a female, thirty-three years old, referred to me by Dr. J. F. Chisolm, of Savannah. While at an oyster supper she attempted to swallow a large oyster, with the result that she choked for a few seconds and then had a sense of fulness in the region of the larynx. The next day she had some difficulty in swallowing, so that she took only liquids. The second day afterward swallowing was decidedly painful; she grew rapidly worse, until the fourth day her condition was serious. She reached this city the morning of the fifth day, with a temperature of 100 degrees and extreme prostration. The examination of the esophagus was made under ether with the head in the extended position. No foreign body was found, but the upper end of the esophagus was red, swollen and edematous, and seemed to be closed. The patient was given cold milk and ice bags to the throat. For two days she suffered excruciating pain on swallowing, and it looked as if we would have to resort to rectal feeding. The next day there was slight amelioration of the pain, which gradually disappeared. In this case the esophagoscope enabled us to see at once that a foreign body was not present, and that the symptoms were due to a severe, acute inflammation, probably caused by a piece of shell attached to the oyster. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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