[Functional status of the operated-on stomach in patients with post-burn esophageal stenosis]

The article discusses the results of complex functional examination of the stomach in 41 patients with post-burn stenosis of the esophagus in different postoperative periods. Group I consisted of 21 patients with isolated chemical burns of the esophagus, group II was made up of 20 patients with combined chemical burns of the esophagus and stomach. Special new methods of examination (3-canal and endoscopic pH-metry, balloonography, radioisotope gastroscintigraphy, radioimmunological test for the hormone gastrin) were conducted to study the functional condition of the stomach which had been operated on. Objective evaluation is possible only by complex use of special methods of examination.