Factors predictive of risk for complications in patients with oesophageal foreign bodies.

Background: Reports on predictive risk factors associated with complications of ingested oesophageal foreign bodies are rare.

Aims: The aim of this study was to determine the predictive risk factors associated with the complications of oesophageal foreign bodies.

Methods: Three hundred sixteen cases with foreign bodies in the oesophagus were retrospectively investigated.

Endoscopic resection of duodenal neoplasms: a single-center study.

Background: Premalignant duodenal lesions such as adenomas are rare. Surgical resection has been the standard approach to the treatment of these lesions. Endoscopic resection of superficial premalignant or malignant lesions of the gastrointestinal tract is used with increasing frequency.