[Stenotic peptic esophagitis following gastric intubation]

In the light of five personal observations and after review of the literature, we call the attention on the possible occurrence of stenosing peptic oesophagitis after a medical act as frequent as apparently innocuous as is a nasogastric tube. However, if the tube itself may play a role in the apparition of the peptic oesophagitis, the primordial favoring element seems to be an often unknown, preexisting hiatal hernia. Prevention and precocious anti-acid treatment are of indisputable usefulness and efficacity. The surgical act, if it takes place, must not only take care of the stenosis but, more importantly, of the reflux.