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Corrosive injury of upper gastrointestinal tract by calcium oxide
verfasst von:
Mihoko Yoshida, Yosuke Matsumoto, Takanobu Suzuki, Satoshi Nishimura, Takahiro Kato, Kazuho Shimura, Hiroto Kaneko, Masafumi Taniwaki
Erschienen in:
Indian Journal of Gastroenterology
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Ausgabe 5/2019
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Excerpt
Calcium oxide (CaO) is one of the solid alkaline caustics; it dissolves in water forming calcium hydroxide generating heat [
1]. Although CaO is widely used as a desiccant for food in Japan, corrosive gastrointestinal (GI) injury caused by CaO was extremely rarely reported in only one patient [
2]. Here, we describe a patient with corrosive injury of the upper GI tract caused by CaO. …