[Aspiration pneumopathy after oesophagogastroscopy (author's transl)]

Pneumopathy by inhalation less common and less striking than oesophageal perforation are often badly known, complications in endoscopies. However their serious nature (five death out of six cases in this series) obliges to know the elements favouring: local anaesthesia premedication, an advanced age person and clinical characters. Probably caused by anaerobic germs, a precocious antibiotherapy is likely to improve the prognosis.