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A Summary of the Bibliographic Material Available in the Field of Otolaryngology

PERORAL ENDOSCOPY

LOUIS H. CLERF, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1930;11(3):343-360.

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General interest in bronchoscopy and esophagoscopy, more widespread application of these measures as a means of diagnosis and of treatment and an increasing desire on the part of laryngologists to perfect themselves in the technical knowledge so necessary to employ these methods safely have done much to contribute to the sum total of the knowledge concerning diseases of certain organs and structures. Among the outstanding contributions for the current year in the field of peroral endoscopy are certain observations on peptic ulcer of the esophagus. These were made possible only by the data secured by direct inspection of the interior of the esophagus by esophagoscopy.

Chevalier Jackson¹ expressed his belief that when the time shall have come that every patient with the slightest discomfort or abnormality in swallowing, every patient with pain or discomfort back of the sternum, every patient with gastric hematemesis, every patient with regurgitation, "heartburn" or "waterbrash" . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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PHILADELPHIA

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Submitted for publication, Jan. 30, 1930.

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