The pharynx examination of an area too often ignored during upper endoscopy ( ASGE - GIE 2013 )
1. Waleed Kh. Mahrous
Thinking Outside the Box article
The pharynx: examination of an
area too often ignored during
upper endoscopy
http://youtu.be/ZqTWTC9V9OA
2. Waleed Kh. Mahrous
The pharynx: examination of an area too often
ignored during upper endoscopy
http://youtu.be/ZqTWTC9V9OA
3. Thinking Outside the Box article
Pharynx is the peripheral part of the GI tract !!
We have powerful tool with our hand which is the endoscope
– it is great to get look to pharynx
Incidence of oral-nasal pharyngeal cancer 30.000
yearly in USA & 8000 death annually
You are looking in any way - you have to go through the
pharynx to go to the esophagus
May me the responsibility of the GI to look to
pharynxes – no body looking to pharynx and every
day body die
Patient particularly at risk – elderly , men , smoker , heavy
drinker people not eating fruit and fightable – It is a most to
look by endoscopy to pharynx
The pharynx: examination of an area too often
ignored during upper endoscopy
http://youtu.be/ZqTWTC9V9OA
Waleed Kh. Mahrous