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Alocasia macrorrhiza (L) Schott and Endl is called Hai Yu, Tien Ho, Shan Yu, Kuan Yin Lien, Tu Chiao lien, Lao Hu Yu and Lang Du in Chinese. Its common English name is Giant Elephant's Ear. The toxic effects of A macrorrhiza arise from sapotoxin and include gastroenteritis and paralysis of the nerve centers. From 1985 to 1993 all individuals who called the Poison Control Center asking for information regarding macrorrhiza were included in this retrospective study. A questionnaire filled out by the Poison Control Center staff collected the demographic data of the victim, the reason for consumption, the prescribed part, clinical symptoms and signs of the victim, and medical outcome of poisonings. Among 27 cases of A macrorrhiza poisoning, the age was 1.5 to 68 y with 12 females and 15 males. One had skin contact and 1 had eye contact. In the 25 cases that consumed the plant leaf or tuber either raw or cooked, the primary symptom was in injected sore throat and the secondary symptom was numbness of the oral cavity. Some patients had salivation, dysphonia, abdominal pain, ulcers of the oral cavity, difficulty in swallowing, thoracodynia, chest tightness and swollen lips. We believe the presence of sapotoxin alone is not sufficient to explain the injected swollen and ulcerative lesions. Calcium oxalate is reported distributed in the entire plant and results in inflammation of the oral cavity and mucous membranes just as our patients had.
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PMID:Calcium oxalate is the main toxic component in clinical presentations of alocasis macrorrhiza (L) Schott and Endl poisonings. 955 63

Giant fibrovascular polyps of the oesophagus are rare benign tumours originating from the upper oesophagus. A 58-year-old woman presented with a 6-week history of a sore throat, odynophagia and progressive dysphagia, managing only a soft diet. CT of the neck and thorax, and barium swallow, both demonstrated a giant fibrovascular polyp measuring approximately 7 cm in length arising from the proximal oesophagus. The patient underwent endoscopic resection of the polyp with the assistance of ultrasonic shears. We present the case of a giant fibrovascular polyp and describe our novel technique for successful endoscopic resection using ultrasonic shears.
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PMID:Endoscopic resection of a giant fibrovascular polyp of the oesophagus with the assistance of ultrasonic shears. 2676 8