Entrapment of guide-wire during oesophageal dilation
Misra, S.P.; Dwivedi, M.
Tropical Gastroenterology Official Journal of the Digestive Diseases Foundation 18(3): 117-118
1997
ISSN/ISBN: 0250-636X PMID: 9385856 Document Number: 477609
We report a patient who developed oesophageal stricture after accidental ingestion of acid. During one of the oesophageal dilation sessions, a Savary-Gillard guide-wire got entrapped in the stomach and had to be removed surgically. A Foley catheter, placed for feeding purposes, migrated into the proximal small intestine causing acute intestinal obstruction. The balloon of the Foley catheter had to be punctured using a sclerotherapy needle and the catheter withdrawn.