[The role of sclerotherapy in the treatment of esophageal varices in children].

The authors presented the actual views and their own results of using sclerotherapy in children with oesophageal varices. Oesophageal varices exist almost every time as a most dangerous complication in patients with portal hypertension. Acute haemorrhage caries a high mortality and the extremely important priority is control of bleeding as soon as possible. Traditional conservative methods of treatment often do not improve long-term survival and portal systematic shunt is rarely possible in patients under the age of 10. Because of it sclerotherapy may be proposed as a treatment of choice for children with oesophageal varices.