Abstract
Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy carries a potential for complications and occasional mortality, particularly after advanced interventional procedures such as foreign body retrieval, stricture dilatation, haemostasis, endoscopic mucosal resection and submucosal dissection. The commonest and most-feared endoscopy-specific oesophageal or gastric complications are perforation and haemorrhage. Since complications may be unrecognised during endoscopy, clinical suspicion warrants prompt and thorough investigation. Traditionally, plain radiographs and fluoroscopic-contrast oesophagography were used. Currently, multidetector CT including intravenous and enteral water-soluble contrast (CT-oesophagography) represents the ideal technique to provide consistent assessment of visceral injuries, including those information that are necessary for therapeutic choice regarding mediastinal, pleural or peritoneal contamination, contrast medium extravasation, luminal obstruction, active bleeding and retained foreign bodies.
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Tonolini, M. (2016). Imaging Techniques, Normal Post-procedural Findings and Complications After Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. In: Tonolini, M. (eds) Imaging Complications of Gastrointestinal and Biliopancreatic Endoscopy Procedures. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31211-8_3
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