[The endoscopic sclerotherapy of esophageal varices in children].

The injection sclerotherapy of esophageal varices is an important path in the treatment of acute bleeding. This procedure is carried out either in emergency conditions concerning bleeding varices or in the chronic status, the sclerotic drug being injected into and round the dilated infraesophageal veins. This study shows the authors' experience beginning with 1992; since then, at Children's Hospital of Iaşi the injection sclerotherapy has become an usual method in the management of the oesophageal varices, especially in the chronic status. This method turns out to be very useful, because nu matter the etiology would be, allows the postponement of decompressive procedures until the child has a proper age.