Publications by authors named "Aurore Lailheugue"
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- Nonoperative treatment for serious injuries caused by harmful substances can be effective and usually doesn't require surgery, leading to low death rates.
- However, keeping damaged tissue can raise the chance of narrowing in the esophagus.
- The study looked at 184 patients and found that voluntary ingestion of the harmful substance, high injury scores, and serious throat issues were key risk factors for developing esophageal narrowing after ingestion.
Gastrostomy is commonly used to provide enteral nutrition when patient require a nutrition support due to not enough oral eating. Gastrostomy tube can lead to many complications; squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is an extremely rare complication of the site of gastrostomy, it was described after several years of enteral nutrition or as part of a metastasis of head and neck tumors. We describe the case of a 60-year-old man heart-liver transplanted for hereditary amyloidosis.
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