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16415551

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
12
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-1-17
pubmed:abstractText
Nasogastric tube syndrome named by Sofferman et al in 1981 is a laryngeal complication presenting with life-threatening vocal cord abductor paralysis derived from peroforation of the NG tube-induced esophageal ulcer. As compared with the previously reported cases of this syndrome, our 4 autopsied patients were so peculiar in the following two points that vocal cord abductor paralysis developed repeatedly and no esophageal ulcer was present in spite of the presence of the laryngeal abductor muscle injury. We hypothesized that the etiology of such a variant form was circulatory injury of the laryngeal abductor muscle which was caused by the compression of the postcricoid blood vessels perfusing this muscle. Nasogastric tube syndrome, which is treatable by decannulation, cannot be ruled out even if no esophageal ulcer is detected by fiberoptic laryngoscopy.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0918-2918
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
44
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1286-90
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
A variant form of nasogastric tube syndrome.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Neurology, Tokyo Metropolitan Neurological Hospital, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports