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My brother-in-law recently had an esophagogastroduodenoscopy to remove food that had become lodged ?
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Conscious sesation: Under conscious sedation, a flexible scope pass into the mouth and advance down swallowing pipe and to site of food impaction. Through the scope instrument can be pass down to grasp, cut or push food into stomach or back out of the mouth.
Answered 7/5/2012
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