Esophageal dilation is a treatment to help stretch, or dilate, abnormal narrowings found in the esophagus. These narrowings are called strictures and can occur from a variety of health problems. They ...

The esophagus is an organ that connects the back of the throat (or pharynx) with the stomach. It is the muscular channel that delivers food, liquids, and saliva to the rest of the digestive system.

The tube is removed in a few weeks or months to allow for everyday breathing through the stoma. Part of the pharynx, the passage between your nasal cavity and esophagus, may also be removed, and, in ...

A stoma is an opening made in the skin in front of your neck to allow you to breathe. The opening is made at the base of your neck. Air goes in and out of your windpipe (trachea) and lungs through ...

Approximately 600 times a day, the esophagus ferries whatever is in your mouth down to your stomach. It’s usually a one-way route, but sometimes acid escapes the stomach and travels back up.

Adele Roberts has revealed she may be forced to undergo surgery after being unable to return her prolapsed stoma into it's bag, three years after having colostomy surgery following a battle with ...

The former Made In Chelsea star, who has a stoma bag, hopes that Sara, one of the disabled figures who features in the Lego Group’s Friends sets, will help to educate people about the subject.

A stoma is a surgically created opening in the abdomen that allows body waste like stool and urine to exit the body when the normal route is not possible due to disease or injury. It is for people who ...

Coronation Street recently revealed that Bethany Platt (played by Lucy Fallon) would be living with a permanent stoma, as a result of complications from liposuction surgery in Turkey. The ...

The annotated version was created with HG19/GRCh37. All positive associations between the oral microbiome and esophageal cancer are listed in Table 2, ordered by p-value from significant to highly ...

The TOPGEAR study demonstrated that radiotherapy does not improve survival outcomes for patients with operable gastric and gastro-esophageal junction cancer when compared to chemotherapy alone.