[Complications of the digestive tract in patients after laryngectomy]

The authors describe the case of six patients who after having undergone laryngectomy suffered from complications affecting digestive tract. One of the patients contracted aerophagy and in the case of five other patients occurred bleeding from the upper digestive tract. Four of the letter five patients had perforation of the gastric ulcer; three of them were treated surgically (in two cases by partial resection of the stomach, in one by ligation of the vessels in ulceration area) and in one case the conservative treatment was applied. All four above patients were completely cured of neoplasmatic illness such and the complications. In the fifth case developed a multiple ulceration of the esophageal wall and its perforation. The patient died as a result of massive and repeated bleeding, despite application of thoracosurgical treatment. In the sixth case, of the patient with aerophagy, the applied treatment was conservative.