[The treatment of stable esophageal cicatricial strictures].

The roentgenological, endoscopic and combined methods of examination of patients allowed to make a program of treatment of patients by the method of bougienage. Different techniques of bougienage were used: "blind", by the direct thread, under the endoscopic control, endoscopic dissection supplemented by bougienage. A stable clinical effect was obtained in the overwhelming majority of patients.